After weeks of dramatic twists in Rivers State, the political gladiators in the oil-rich South-South state reached a truce yesterday after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Villa in Abuja. The meeting had in attendance Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, who is now the Minister of the Federal Capital [&he...
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 […]
•Wike and Fubara Stakeholders have continued to weigh in on the Rivers political crisis with the latest being the Rivers Elders and Leaders Forum which has condemned moves to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The group’s position was contained in a communique issued after its emergency meeting yesterday. The Forum which reviewed the recent d...
•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...
•A police operative There was pandemonium yesterday at Chinda/Ada George road when a man simply identified as Nuhu, reportedly snatched an Ak 47 rifle from one of the conventional security guard attached to the house of ex-governor in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. It was gathered that Nuhu, a popular scavenger suspected to have taken hard [&hel...
The Centre for Africa Liberation and Socioeconomic Rights (CALSER) has raised the alarm over an alleged plot by some members of the Rivers State House of Assembly to disrupt the conduct of by-elections in the state. Leader of the Centre, Lady Princess Ajibola, who made this known at a press conference, said the lawmakers are […]
•Wike and Fubara There is palpable tension in Rivers State and other parts of the Niger Delta region as speculations of plans by some powerful forces to foist emergency rule in the oil-rich state heightened at the weekend. It was reliably gathered that the new fear was occasioned by the raging acrimony between the camps […]
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...
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