If Fubara contest on NDC ticket, he might win, Otunbajo suggests

A foremost researcher at the Institute of International Affairs, Femi Otubanjo says if the governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara defects and picks Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC ticket he might win.

Otunbajo, who is the Director of Research suggested that Fubara may defect to the NDC ahead of the 2027 elections.

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He stated during his appearance on Arise Television’s Morning Show on Thursday.

He said the governor could emerge as a serious contender in the NDC if he joins the party.

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According to him, Gubara was the architect of his woes, adding that
Fubara’s emergence as governor was tied to the political structure of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.

He said: “Fubara will go to NDC and he will try. He might even win, but the danger for Fubara is that when he goes to NDC, and he still has the legislators, 28 of them around him, he might even be impeached before the election and that will make him less powerful and less formidable candidate.

“Overall I know that Fubara’s case has been a very bad one, but he, of course, he’s the one who got himself into it. You cannot, like they say, you cannot immediately go into a river and complain of being wet. He was part of that arrangement of allowing to be selected by one man, and now he has been deselected by the same man.”

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