Rivers: Tinubu’s Move To Reconcile Wike, Fubara Has Collapsed – Rivers’ APC

Tony Okocha, the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) caretaker committee chairman in Rivers State, provided an update on the political standoff between Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and state governor Siminalayi Fubara on Thursday.

Okocha observed that President Bola Tinubu’s attempt to patch up the differences between Wike and Fubara had failed.

In an effort to resolve the political issue in Rivers, President Tinubu recently met with Wike and Fubara in the presidential palace in Abuja.

However, as a result of the conflict, the state administration destroyed the state House of Assembly building in the final few days, and 27 assembly members who supported Wike defected to the APC.

Okocha while addressing a press conference at the APC national secretariat on Thursday in Abuja said, “I wasn’t part of it, but whatever that was it, has broken down, and it has been broken irreconcilably.”

He also said the four members of the state House of Assembly led by the factional Speaker, Edison Ehie, who sat and passed the budget presented to them by Governor Fubara for the 2024 fiscal year were dwelling on illegality, saying their action would not stand.

Okocha said the APC was wooing Wike to defect to the party, stressing that as soon as he becomes a member of the APC, he would become the party’s leader in the state.