By Suleiman Anyalewechi
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Saturday, June 21, 2025, informed that the suspended Rivers State Governor Sir Siminalayi Fubara and his Bayelsa State counterpart, Senator Duoye Diri, are next in line to join forces with the All Progressive Congress, APC.
Both Governors are of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP extraction.
This is as he expressed confidence that the APC will over run the South-south region in the next general elections.
The Senate President who spoke at the formal reception ceremony in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, to receive Governor Umo Eno into the APC’s fold, noted that after the defection of the Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori and Eno of Delta and Akwa Ibom States respectively, it will be the turn of Rivers and Bayelsa to complete the capture of the political soul of the South South region.
The Source reports that the South South geo-political Zone has been the bastion and one of the strongholds of the PDP since the advent of the current political dispensation in 1999.
Post-2023 general elections, the PDP was firmly in control of the oil rich region, producing five Governors out of the maximum six available.
However, some political developments have since left the party currently in charge of only two states – Bayelsa and Rivers.
According to Akpabio, in 2027, the entire South-south region will be queueing up behind President Bola Tinubu in his quest for a second term in office.
“Governor Umo Eno after you, who knows, Rivers State will tumble, after Rivers state, Bayelsa will join, and of course, we are already in control of Edo State.
Henceforth, particularly come 2027, the South-south will go one way, and unanimously vote for President Tinubu”, Akpabio stated.
He asserted that contrary to the false impression being created in some quarters, overwhelming majority of Akwa Ibom citizens and residents are in total support of the decision of the Governor to dump the PDP for APC .
The Senate President also commended the Delta State Governor for his political foresight in leaving the PDP, to join forces with the APC.
He expressed the optimism that the new political alignment will usher in more growth and development into the South- south region.
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