Rivers: Fubara, EXCO meet over defection of 27 lawmakers to APC

By Peters Monday, Abuja

Following the defection of 27 lawmakers loyal to FCT minister Nyesom Wike, Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State, has convened an emergency meeting with the members of the State Executive Council.

The meeting is reportedly ongoing at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

Congress gathered that the governor called for the meeting following the defection of 27 members of the 32-member House of Assembly from the governing Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.

It was learned the lawmakers had dumped PDP for APC during a sitting of the House.

The lawmakers were seen brandishing the flags of the APC in a group photograph after the sitting.

Recall, Fubara and his predecessor, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, have been at loggerheads over the party’s structure in the state.