Rivers Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, said the Peoples Democratic Party has failed the people of the state, adding that he should not be blamed for hardly relating with the opposition party.

Fubara declared this when he played host to a delegation of the Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, led by its Chairman, Senator Orji Uzo Kalu at Government House in Port Harcourt.

The governor expressed this against the backdrop of the PDP leadership’s failure to give him the necessary support in the fight between him and his predecessor, Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.

He said, the aloofness of the PDP leadership has made the people of the state apolitical, and only interested in pursuing truth, adding that he should be acquitted of blame if he is not gravitating towards the party.

According to him, “In our state today, we are no longer doing party. We are doing a movement, so you don’t blame me if I don’t go to the side of the party too much.

“The party has failed us here, so what we are doing here is to stand with our two legs on the soil of Rivers State, so that we can defend democracy.”

Recall that the party’s acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, is believed to be a mole in the party, after the interest of the FCT Minister who has his fingers in the party and the ruling All Progressives Congress.