Rivers crisis: Tinubu wades into Fubara, Wike dispute
President Bola Tinubu has intervened in the ongoing political and security crisis in Rivers State.
Telescope.ng reports that the rift between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, who is now the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has escalated due to attempts by a faction of the state House of Assembly to impeach the governor.
Sources are attributing the blame for the impeachment attempt to Wike, suggesting he may be orchestrating the actions of the faction within the House of Assembly aiming to remove Governor Fubara from office.
The president used the opportunity of Tuesday’s meeting of the Police Council, which both the governor and the FCT Minister attended as members, to ostensibly end the feud between the two political allies.
Governor of Bauchi state, Bala Mohammed, disclosed the president’s intervention while briefing correspondents on the outcome of the Police Council’s meeting, held at the State House, Abuja.
Despite their feud, Fubara and Wike had earlier exchanged pleasantries inside the Council Chambers venue of the meeting before it commenced.
Muhammed, who is the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum (PDP-GF) also disclosed that the opposition governors have resolved to work with the president because he has shown good faith by not interfering with gubernatorial cases brought before the courts by PDP members.
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