Rivers State APC member Tony Okocha has reacted to a statement that Governor Siminalayi Fubara allegedly made regarding the peace deal he signed at the Aso Rock.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
During a live Symfoni TV broadcast, Okocha claimed to have been among those in attendance at the meeting where Fubara signed the peace deal. He claimed that the atmosphere was serene and private, preventing anyone from feeling under pressure.
Okocha claimed that President Tinubu ordered all members of the security and media to leave the room. Okocha asked why Fubara would say he was forced to sign the contract.
Okocha said, “A lot of things go on in social media; I don’t want to believe the governor said so. In fact, let me be his advocate here. I don’t want to believe. Just like I read the other day that he has shutdown NNPC and all that. He came and said, look…. he came for a reporter.”
“So it’s not everything you pick on social media. I know the governor would not have said so, but if he had said so, it’s too bad. We inundated the airwaves with his statements. I think he had an organized press briefing to brief Rivers people and said the president’s intervention was not a death sentence.”
“So if he had come back… Look, the serenity of that environment was not the type anyone can say, I was cajoled or I was coerced. I said to you that the president asked all the press people to go out.”
“The president told all security agents who work directly with him and were in that meeting to leave and that he was going to talk to us as a family. So there was no reason for anybody to feel intimidated at all.”
“There was no reason. And is he remembering that now? Is it not too late? Something that took place around February or March. And you say you were coerced. To do what? I’m not sure he did.”CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
