Rivers state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said that his administration and supporters will not dissipate their energy fighting with their detractors.
He said they would rather work to set a higher standard of leadership and a new bar to improve the quality of life and socio-economic status of Rivers people.
Fubara said his detractors were making determined overtures to distract his administration from achieving set goals with unproductive fights but vowed that he would not waste his energy fighting back.
The governor said he would continue to channel every energy into delivering good governance, implementing people-centric policies, executing sustainable impact projects and ensuring that dividends of democracy were constantly delivered to the people.
He spoke when he officially kicked off the Okania-Ogbogoro Road project in Obio/Akpor local government Area on Friday, May 24.
Fubara said: “I have only one request, that request is to ask you to continue to conduct yourselves peacefully in the face of all the assaults. They want us to miss our goal, they want to distract us.
“If we fight with them, we will be wasting our energy. So, what we need to do is to continue to do that thing which we have promised our people.
“Our style will be to set a standard that will be above them so that when they come, they will see what we are doing. Everybody will be seeing it that it is about the people, and they will say ‘but they are working for the people’. So, that will be our style of leadership.”
Fubara said that the Okania-Ogbogoro road project would not end at the stage of kick off but would be completed and inaugurated in the next five months.
He called on members of the benefitting communities and their leaders to give the contractor the necessary support to deliver the project within schedule.
He said: “At the end of the day, the project belongs to you. It is a project that brings about a better and more conducive environment for you and your children.
Credit: The Nigeria Lawyer