Wike, Fubara settle Rivers crisis after meeting with Tinubu
Minister Nyesom Wike and ousted Governor Simi Fubara have resolved to put aside their feud, The Peoples Gazette has learnt.
The truce followed a meeting called by President Bola Tinubu on Thursday night in Abuja.
Sources at the meeting said the parties were asked to work out the modalities for executing the deal, which would include reinstating Mr Fubara to office as Rivers governor.
Mr Fubara was suspended from office in March by Mr Tinubu, who feared that the political crisis raging across the state at the time could only be contained via the dismantling of the existing constitutional order.
The president’s action was widely criticised after a military administrator was asked to take over affairs of the oil-rich state.
The National Assembly ratified the emergency declaration for six months, and today’s accord may likely cut short the tenure of the administrator, Ibok Ekwe Ibas.
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