The Chairman of Obio/Akpor Local Government of Rivers State, Gift Worlu has declared that the political climate in the state, is a rainbow coalition of the ‘Renewed Hope’ family.
Worlu, who expressed unhappiness with the state of governance in the state, affirmed that “yes, there’s a Renewed Hope family that all of us belong to in our state.”
Using real life examples to drive home his point, Worlu explained that ‘you know, in our churches, sometimes you have a particular church having an event and inviting other churches to join them and they will all come together under what is called the body of Christ.
“We don’t quarrel about it, but when politicians come together in the interest of peace, in the interest of protecting their interests, in the interest of justifying, in our case now, the goodwill that we have enjoyed under the presidency of Bola, Tinubu as a state, don’t forget that all politics is local.
“And Rivers people, we have seen what we have never seen before. The kind of goodwill that we have enjoyed, whether it is in terms of projects executed by the federal government, whether it is in terms of appointments, whether it is in terms of the good relationship that we enjoy from the president, we have decided as a people that the time has come for us to keep party aside and work together in the overall interest of our state and the people and that’s what I mean.
“I belong to the PDP., but when it comes to the issue of the election that is coming in 2027, I am not PDP. I am for Bola Tinubu.
“I am a member of the Renewed Hope family. That’s the point I’m making. And all of us are in that Renewed Hope family including the governor and that’s where the FCT minister is the leader,” he said.
On the crisis rocking the state he said: “Well, in my place, there’s a saying that when a husband and wife have issues, and the matter is brought to the council of chiefs.
“The duty of the council of chiefs is to put aside the differences and see how they can bring them together. But ultimately, these two individuals will go to their house, and the council of chiefs will go to their own houses.
“It is what the both of them make of what the council of chiefs has told them that will tell whether there is peace or not.
“If you wake up this morning and you decided to dress in the way you are dressed, it’s your personal matter. Nobody has a right, not even maybe your husband. Maybe he can say, oh, I like the way you are dressed, or I think you should do this but it’s your personal matter.
“But when it has to do with a matter of even what your husband will eat, because it affects him, you need to ask him, darling, what if I do this or I do that? Then when you talk about the state, you know that you cannot decide as you like. I also talked to you about the issue of incompetence.
“We saw the governor of Delta State defecting recently. You saw how that defection happened. A lot of governors have defected, even Bayelsa State.
“The day he defected, he did so with people. He called people around because it’s not your personal thing.
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“When it happened in Rivers State, what did you see? It was one man standing alone. That’s not leadership as I know it. It is said that if you think that you’re a leader and nobody’s following you, you’re just taking a walk.
“So, the man has the yam. He has the knife. He’s the governor. He decides how he wants things to be. If he wants peace, he will decide. If he wants war, it’s up to him.
“Since he came back after the emergency rule, we’ve never had a meeting with him. He has never called us. He has never called the assembly members for any meeting. He has not called the elders of the party and the system that he belongs to.
“See, as chairman of council in my local government, I know who my leaders are. If I want a meeting to hold, I reach out to them.
“I say, leader, I think we should do this and that and there should be a meeting for us to agree on how to move forward. That’s how it’s done. It doesn’t make me leader,” he added.
