- Ambassador Blessing Fubara Senior, brother to the incumbent Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has officially declared his intention to run for the state’s governorship seat under the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC). He explicitly vowed to serve only a single four-year term if elected to office.
- The aspirant emphasized the absolute necessity of respecting the state’s historical zoning arrangement, asserting that the Rivers South-East Senatorial District must be allowed to complete its full eight-year tenure.
- Rejecting the influence of sheer financial muscle in politics, Fubara labeled Rivers as “distressed” and called for a massive political uprising among his estimated two million supporters across the 23 local government areas to reclaim the state during the party primaries.
Ambassador Blessing Fubara Senior, brother of Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has declared his intention to contest the governorship election under the Nigerian Democratic Congress, pledging to serve only one term if elected.
Making his formal declaration ahead of the opposition party’s upcoming internal primary elections on Thursday, May 28, 2026, Eko Hot Blog reports that the aspirant pitched himself as a highly energetic, competent, and reliable candidate.
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He maintained that his primary mission is to restore lasting peace, political stability, and robust economic prosperity to a state that he argues has severely deteriorated.
Lamenting the current political atmosphere in the state, Fubara declared that Rivers has suffered a sharp economic decline, lost key investment opportunities, and seen the fundamental dignity of its people short-changed.
He rejected the narrative that the citizenry are a conquered people, calling instead for a unified, cross-party political “uprising” to return Rivers to its historic status as the booming economic “treasure base of the nation”.
Acknowledging that his campaign may not match the massive financial capacity of rival political heavyweights, he insisted that true political strength rests in the hands of the electorate, declaring his movement richer in grassroots capacity.
A central pillar of Fubara’s declaration focused heavily on maintaining regional equity through the state’s established zoning guidelines.
He argued that the Rivers South-East Senatorial District must be permitted to complete its constitutional eight-year tenure, warning that altering the traditional rotational formula would set a dangerous and highly destabilizing precedent for future governance.
To demonstrate his commitment to this rotational pact, Fubara vowed to step aside after just four years in office, promising to deploy the full apparatus of his administration to support the next candidate emerging from the adjoining senatorial district.
In a direct appeal to his estimated two million followers holding membership cards across the 23 local government areas, the hopeful urged massive grassroots mobilization at all polling units and wards to ensure an undisputed primary victory.
He concluded his declaration by extending an explicit call to his unnamed “elder brother” currently in the race, urging him to see the reason behind the people’s movement, step down from the contest, and fully back the collective push to reclaim and restore the soul of Rivers State.
