•Fubara, Wike and Tinubu
The caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, has said President Bola Tinubu’s attempt to patch up the rift between the state governor, Simi Fubara and the Federal Capital Territory FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, has failed.
The president recently held a meeting with Wike and Fubara at the presidential villa in Abuja, to mediate between the two politicians in the state, reports The Nation.
However, in the last four days, the issue assumed a new dimension with the demolition of the state House of Assembly Complex and the defection of 27 members of the Assembly loyal to Wike to the APC.
Addressing a press conference at the APC national secretariat today, December 14, in Abuja, following the developments in the state, including the peace move by Tinubu to end the strained relationship between Fubara and Wike, Okocha said: “I wasn’t part of it, but whatever that was it, has broken down, and it has been broken irreconcilably.”
He said that the four members of the state House of Assembly, led by the divisive Speaker Edison Ehie, were focusing on criminality and that their actions would not be tolerated as they sat and approved the budget that Governor Fubara had offered them for the fiscal year 2024.
Okocha said the APC was wooing Wike to defect to the party, stressing that as soon as he became a member of the APC, he would become the party’s leader in the state.
