The Kalabari ethnic nationality in Rivers State has endorsed Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara for a second term in office.
The people gave the endorsement on Tuesday, at the Government House, Port Harcourt, when they paid a courtesy visit on the governor.
A representative of the Kalabari delegation, Chief Pawariso Samuel Horsfall, announced that the Kalabari people have unanimously endorsed Gov. Fubara for a second term, and vowed to mobilise Rivers people to ensure his electoral victory in the 2027 gubernatorial election.
The Amanyanabo of Abonnema, King Disreal Gbobo Bobmanuel, expressed the profound thanks of the Kalabari people to Gov. Fubara for his genuine love for them, as evidenced in the types and quality of development projects delivered or being executed in the area.
Responding, Gov. Fubara explained that his administration is executing strategic projects that are opening up Kalabari land for unprecedented development and economic growth.
The governor stated that while previous administrations avoided executing the original plan for the Trans-Kalabari Road project due to cost implications, he has ventured into it, and driving the process steadily in order to link Kalabari land to the state capital.
Gov. Fubara said: “Somebody said, if I don’t do it for my people, who will do it for them. We ventured into the Trans-Kalabari Road, we didn’t close our eyes. Our eyes were open because we knew what we were entering into.
“It is not a joke; it is a big project. We believe that at the end of that project, the level of development that it will attract to that line of entry into Kalabari will be very unprecedented.
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“Issues of insecurity from our waterways will be reduced because, at that point we are doing road, people won’t be using the river anymore. The cost of living will also be cheaper.”
On their unanimous endorsement to see him run for a second term in office, Gov. Fubara said power belongs to God, and “He gives it to whoever finds favour in His sight.”
Gov. Fubara however, stated that if God so approved of it, even those who are regrouping against him will not see the path God will lead him because they cannot scuttle such plan.
He acknowledged the immense support his administration enjoys, and urged the Kalabari people, to stand with honour in their unalloyed support for his administration, which will neither abandon them nor fail to deliver quality projects to the people.
