•Wike, Fubara and Tinubu The intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the crisis between Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State and FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has generated ripples with some Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), including a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, expressing concern that the truce brokered by the president might have breac...
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asserted that there is no way back for the 25 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly whose seats have been declared vacant except through a fresh nomination process. Leading members of the National Working Committee (NWC) at a press conference after an emergency […...
South-South Leader, Edwin Clark has described the communique issued at the end of the reconciliatory meeting by President Bola Tinubu to resolve the crisis in Rivers State as baffling, appalling and unacceptable to the people, especially, the ljaw ethnic nationality. In a press conference in Abuja today, the elder statesman, threatens legal ac...
The controversy over the suspension of 26 lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly took a new dimension today as Lawyers for Defence of Democracy, called on the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, to investigate the alleged secret ex-parte order issued on Friday by Justice Donatus Okorowo, stopping the […]
•Anabs Sara-Igbe The National Coordinator, South-South Elders Forum, Chief Anabs Sara-Igbe, has said that the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, cannot be subservient to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. Sara-Igbe, who stated this during an interview on Channels Television weekend, said it was difficult to cont...
As the crisis rocking the Rivers State House of Assemble unfolds, party chieftains, lawyers and other stakeholders have continued to express divergent views which indicate that the feud may not end any time soon. Although the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is working assiduously to resolve the political crisi...
The President of the Ijaw National Congress, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, has expressed dismay that President Bola Tinubu has refused to caution the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, over the political crisis the latter has allegedly fuelled in Rivers State. Okaba stated that for the president to remain quiet while Wike was caus...
•Solomon Bob A member of the House of Representatives from Rivers State, Honourable Solomon Bob, says the political crisis rocking the state is an embarrassment, especially when the economic importance of the state to the country is considered. Speaking to Channels Television, Honourable Bob said the demolition of the Rivers State House of Ass...
•Fubara and Wike A fresh twist crept into the political tension in River States, yesterday, as no fewer than 10 bulldozers charged into the House of Assembly complex and reduced the imposing structures to rubbles. A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, said the decision to demolish and rebuild the c...
•Tinubu Amidst the cold war between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike and his estranged benefactor cum Rivers Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Honourable Yekini Nabena, has advised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to rise above narrow pol...

