There is uncertainty in the camp of the Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, over their fate in the forthcoming House of Assembly and governorship primary elections of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The APC had scheduled the House of Assembly primary election to hold on Wednesday, May 20th and the internal governorship poll to hold on Thursday, May 21st.
Fubara was among the four governorship aspirants from Rivers APC screened for the primary election while others were Ovunda Kingsley Chinda, Alabo Dakorinama George-Kelly and Tonye Cole.
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It was gathered that the camp of the governor was pensively waiting for the results of the screening committee to know whether the governor would contest the poll.
Stakeholders had continued to query the circumstances that surrounded his screening when he appeared before the Abuja panel headed by the National Chairman of the party.
It was widely reported that the governor stormed out of the venue of the screening looking ruffled and failing to answer questions from the reporters on ground.
Besides Fubara, all his loyalists, including top supporters like Chijoke Ihunwo and Victor Oko-Jumbo, were among the 65 aspirants, who participated in the screening for the House of Assembly primary elections, but were not cleared by the committee.
About 19 of the uncleared aspirants later appeared before the Appeal Panel chaired by Abdul Mahmud.
The panel was said to have spent about two days in the state to hear their complaints and later filed it’s report to the National Working Committee of the party.
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