Civil servants in Rivers State, particularly those at the state secretariat, abandoned their duties to celebrate Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s win at the Supreme Court against Tonye Cole, the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 election.
According to the workers, “godfathers don’t have a place in our state.”
Some of the workers, who gathered in the open space within the secretariat, danced around in clusters as the sounds of Burna Boy and Duncan Mighty blared from loudspeakers.
They claimed that Fubara was a righteous ruler who had come to lift them, with some noting that for eight years of Wike, they were not promoted, while those that were promoted shortly before he became governor did receive the actual salary to go with such promotion.
“For the first time in almost a decade, Fubara put a smile on our faces by gifting us the sum of N100,000 for the Christmas celebration. What else can we sit but to thank God that he has made it possible for our dear governor to be at the Supreme Court,” says one of the civil servants who works in the Ministry of Information and Communications.
“Rivers is finally free from godfatherism and oppression. It is not right for any man to play God no matter the height he has attained,” a worker in the ministry of commerce, who simply identified himself as “Baba’ said.
Recall that Rivers has been deep in a political crisis, wherein politicians loyal to Fubara and former Governor Nyesom Wike have been at loggerheads on several occasions.
