Tinubu’s peace talk between Wike, Fubara has collapsed

The peace talk by President Bola Tinubu, aimed to resolve the political feud between Rivers State Governor, Simi Fubara and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT ), Nyesom Wike, has collapsed. Caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, stated this on Thursday, in abuja.

He said the crisis which has forced 25 members of the state house of assembly to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the APC has defied solution, despite the president’s intervention. Politicsnow recalls President Tinubu had in October, summoned Wike and Fubara to the presidential villa, to resolve the political feud between the two leaders.

The meeting with the president followed attempts by lawmakers, loyal to Wike, to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara. But speaking with journalists at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, Okocha said: “I wasn’t part of it, but whatever that was, it has broken down, and it has been broken irreconcilably.” He added that the pro-Fubara lawmakers, led by the Speaker, Edison Ehie, who sat and passed the budget presented to them by the governor for the 2024 fiscal year acted in illegality. On the status of Wike, he said the party was wooing him to decamp to the APC to confirm his status as a member of the party.