Rivers State has suffered from politics of bitterness- Gov Fubara

Sim Fubara, the governor of Rivers State, has bemoaned the damaging consequences of what he called the “politics of bitterness” in the state.

Fubara warned lawmakers to use prudence in their political manoeuvring so as not to purposefully jeopardise the state’s and the country’s prospects for peace and economic prosperity.

This was said by Fubara when he met with a team from the House of Representatives Committee on Ports and Harbours on Tuesday at Government House in Port Harcourt. The mission was led by the committee’s chairman, Nnolim Nnaji.

The group was in Rivers to perform supervision duties at the sea ports of Port Harcourt and Onne as well as the Bonny channels, according to a statement released by the governor’s chief press secretary, Nelson Chukwudi.

The governor stated that the sea ports continued to be vital infrastructure that will help reap the great rewards of the blue economy, and that anyone who were happy to see them shuttered and abandoned did not have the best interests of the nation or the state at heart.

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“If you understand the maths, this was the senior minister of transportation about nine years ago, yet nothing happened at our ports. Due to acrimonious politics, any progress that was encouraged to reach these maritime ports was halted. That’s the reason our ports are dead today.

We have now ushered in a new, comparable period, following the additional eight years of suffering that this other person endured. It is common to support everything that can advance and develop this state if you are a lover of it.

It doesn’t matter who is seated here at this moment. It has to do with the state. What’s the point if the state keeps getting worse? We are only having trouble because of the allocation,” he stated.

Fubara argued that politicians ought to be appropriately viewed as a game in which a victor would always emerge, and that those who are unlucky should not take part in actions that undermine the system.

We have now ushered in a new, comparable period, following the additional eight years of suffering that this other person endured. It is common to support everything that can advance and develop this state if you are a lover of it.

It doesn’t matter who is seated here at this moment. It has to do with the state. What’s the point if the state keeps getting worse? We are only having trouble because of the allocation,” he stated.

Fubara argued that politicians ought to be appropriately viewed as a game in which a victor would always emerge, and that those who are unlucky should not take part in actions that undermine the system.

The governor informed the committee that his administration was committed to provide the necessary backing to result in a complete renovation of all the state’s seaports and Blue Sea trade channels.