Governor Siminalayi Fubara, FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker Martins Amaewhule, and assembly members met with President Bola Tinubu on Thursday.
The President met with the parties at the meeting, according to Channels TV, and on March 18 the state declared a state of emergency.
Governor Fubara will meet with the President twice, the first of whom declared state emergency rule while suspending him, his deputy, Mrs. Ngozi Odu, and the Rivers Assembly.
President Tinubu attributed his actions, among other things, to the state Assembly’s inability to work together and the state’s security situation.
However, the results of Thursday’s meeting show that efforts to end the region’s protracted political crisis have come to an end. One photo shows the President with the governor and minister all smiles.
In another image, the governor and the FCT Minister are seen circling the governor’s office alongside the speaker and other state legislators.
Although the president and the parties who met with him on Thursday night did not comment on the meeting, there are indications that the oil-rich Rivers State may be on the verge of ending.
Handshakes, smiles, and photos were captured by the parties, who have been at odds with each other for months and have been trading allegations.
In a nationwide broadcast on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers State, suspended governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, as well as the members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, for six months in the first instance, at the height of the political conflict between the Fubara and Amaewhule camps.
According to Tinubu, who relyed on Section 305 of the 1999 Constitution to support his position, he can’t continue to observe the political deterioration in Rivers.
Vice Admiral Ibok-ete Ibas (rtd), a retired naval chief, was immediately appointed and sworn in as the state’s sole administrative in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Rotimi Amaechi, Atedo Peterside, Nasir El-Rufai, Femi Falana, the Labour Party (LP), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Nigerian Bar Association, the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), among others, expressly rejected and condemned the suspension of Fubara and other democratically elected representatives.
The immediate-past governor of Rivers State, Wike, and his smitten ex-political godson Fubara, have fought for two years over the state’s political system.
Fubara’s alleged failure to implement a Supreme Court decision regarding the state’s political situation was the target of a threat from the Amaewhule camp, which is a Wike-backed organization.
On May 14, 2013, Goodluck Jonathan imposed an emergency rule in Nigeria on all of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa, the last of which a president did.
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Source: Channels TV
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