Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers has issued a stern warning to local government chairpersons in the state, cautioning those disrespecting him that they are digging their pit and will soon fall into it.

Fubara gave the warning during the commissioning of a Comprehensive Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Ndoni, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area of the state.

The facility was built and donated to the state government by former Governor Peter Odili.

Expressing surprise at the presence of the local government chairman of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni at the event, Fubara criticized certain chairpersons for their absence from state government activities due to former governor Nyesom Wike.

His words: “I am surprised that I saw the local government chairman of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni here. I am very surprised because I know that for a very long time, any event that has to do with the state government, all the local government chairmen, as it were, do not participate. I hope when he leaves here, they are not going to sack him.

“I know you are not loyal to me. Are they not going to sack you? Or when you leave here, you will grant a press interview that it was not you. That it was your shadow.

“Let me say it here: every one of you who thinks he is disrespecting me, you have already dug your pit; you will fall inside it.

“Siminalayi Fubara, like a river, will flow in a direction that there is no resistance. One way or the other, we will get to our destination, and we will go with our people.”