The Peoples Democratic Party has likened Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s defection to the All Progressives Congress to “a captive falling in love with the captor,” describing his move as a misplacement of blame over the political crisis in the state.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Ini Ememobong, made the remarks on Thursday during an appearance on The Morning Brief, a Channels Television programme.
Recall that Fubara had announced his switch from the PDP to the APC on Tuesday, claiming the decision stemmed from what he described as the PDP’s failure to stand by him during the prolonged political turmoil in Rivers State.
“We sympathise 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.
