His Royal Highness and head of the Fubara House in Opobo, Alabo Dagogo Fubara, Professor of Geodesy has dismissed claims being peddled the PDP governorship candidate Sir Siminalayi Fubara, is related to Governor Nyesom Wike.
The Professor Emeritus who spoke to leading Editors-in-Chief of the Port Harcourt Press, including the Port Harcourt Telegraph, declared that the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has no ounce of Ikwerre blood.
There has being insinuations that Siminalayi whose name means a poor man could give birth to a rich person shares blood ties with Governor Ezenwo Nyesom Wike.
The Professor of Geodesy and widely known historian who is credited with stopping the surge of the ravaging Atlantic which was advancing up the steps of St Paul’s through the embankment of the Opobo shoreline expressed surprise that people could go to any length to fabricate tales.
”It doesn’t matter where your mother would have come from”, the head of the Black Fubara Family remarked, “everyone is controlled or owned by a man”, saying the Opobo people are patrilineal.
Tracing the genealogy of Sim’s parents, the Emeritus Professor, who as head of Sim’s family is like his father said, “His father, grandfather were bonafide Fubara. Siminalayi Fubara is a bonafide Fubara”, he stressed.
I am 84 years old. I grew up knowing his father (Joseph). I know much about the place where I am Chief of by the grace of God.
“Those who are trying to link him with Governor Wike” in terms of birth, “are not doing us any favour.”
He said for him it is a non issue, saying “if a man from Rivers State is capable, he should be given what he is capable of delivering.”
Alabo Fubara revealed that Opobo does not give titles to non indigenes.
He said that Siminalayi is a titled man whose father and mother have nothing to do with being Ikwerre.
Concluding, Professor Fubara added, “We the IBANI Ijaws are PATRILINEAL in making ancestral claims for who we are and belong to.
“My paternal grandmother is from Azuogu, Ndoki while maternal grandmother is from Azumini Ndoki.
“Yet I am an IBANI IJAW because by my paternity I am a DIRECT BLOOD DESCENDANT OF KING ASIMINI, said to be the first crowned King of Grand Bonny of the IBANI Kingdom.
“By this Dr SIM FUBARA is my paternal cousin BY FAR MORE RELATED TO ME THAN YOUR ASSERTION OF HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOV WIKE.
“Let us pray for Sim Fubara to become our Governor directed and enabled by the Holy Spirit to win and perform righteously as good, if not better than H.E Diete Spiff. When the Righteous rule the people rejoice.”
Meanwhile, we have obtained information from the Jaja family which further indicates that even on the maternal side of Sim’s lineage they do not share any relationship whatsoever with the ethnic Ikwerre as propagandists are claiming.
The Jaja family, our investigation has revealed, do not have less than 14 sub family groups .
It is said in Opobo mythology that King Jaja migrated from Bonny with 14 of his sons. So you have the Oko-Jajas and the Sam-Jajas for example.
What has emerged from our inquiries show that Sim Fubara’s mother was born a Jaja. She did not come from Ikwerre land.
When it was time to settle down, she married Joseph Fubara, a soldier, father of Sim Fubara who trained overseas.
Alabo Emmanuel Patesi Jaja a retired banker told a team of editors drawn from the Port Harcourt press that his wife was the elder sister of Sim’s mother.
Alabo Jaja said there was no truth in the claim that any of Sim’s parents had any blood tie with the Wike family or the Ikwerre ethnic nation as a whole.
He ascribed the claims that are making the rounds to the actions of mischief makers who think peddling falsehood would give them an advantage over Sim Fubara.
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