By Lateef Ibrahim
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has described the defection of Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara to the All Progressives Congress, (APC), as a case of a captive falling in love with the captor.
The party’s factional National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, made the remarks yesterday during an interview on The Morning Brief, a programme on Channels Television monitored in Abuja.
Governor Fubara had defected from PDP to APC on Tuesday, stating that his decision was motivated by the party’s failure to protect him during the recent political crisis in Rivers State.
“During the preparations for the convention, I remember a journalist asked Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state about what the party was doing and he clearly said we need to allow him that he’s been through a lot that they’ve been speaking, so you can’t just throw other people under the bus because of your actions and inactions.
“We sympathize with Siminalayi Fubara. We know that this is a situation where Stockholm syndrome has happened, a captive has fallen in love with a captor and he’s unable to differentiate between where the real problem lies.
“But we frown against that conscious amnesia, where he picks and chooses where the blame should be. He knows where the origin of his problem is. He knows where the continuity of his problem is. When he went to court about the issue of defection, he knew what the truth about it was, and he should be able to say that.
“So again, that deflection by him begins to beg the question whether he is placing the blame where he should rightly be,” Ememobong said.
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