From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has asserted that a higher standard of leadership style would be set by his administration, adding that it would set a new bar in improving the quality of life and socio-economic status of Rivers people.
The governor said that there were determined overtures by detractors who are bent on distracting his administration from set goals with unproductive fights, emphasising that fighting back will be a waste of energy. Governor Fubara insisted that he would rather rechannel every energy into delivering good governance, implementing people-centric policies, executing sustainable impact projects and ensuring that dividends of democracy are constantly delivered to the people. He made the assertion at Ogbogoro Town, venue of the official flag-off of the Okania-Ogbogoro Road project in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area on Friday.
The governor 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.” Governor Fubara insisted that the Okania-Ogbogoro Road project would not end at the stage of flag off but will be completed and inaugurated in the next five months.
According to him, what is important for members of the benefitting communities and their leaders is to give the contractor the necessary support without any act of sabotage to deliver the project on schedule.
He said: “At the end of the day, the project belongs to you. It is a project that brings about a better and conducive environment for you and your children. “