Nigeria, Dec. 10 -- Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State says he would have lost his position as governor if not for President Bola Tinubu's intervention.

Mr Fubara disclosed this at a stakeholders meeting on Tuesday while announcing his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Government House in Port Harcourt.

He explained that his defection to the APC was to fully support APC's Mr Tinubu, who he said has been instrumental to his continued stay as Rivers governor.

Mr Fubara suggested that he received no protection except from Mr Tinubu during political crises in Rivers State triggered by the feud between the governor and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, now the Minister of the...