President Bola Tinubu is currently engaged in a high-stakes meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja with key stakeholders from Rivers State, including Governor Siminalayi Fubara, former Governor Dr. Peter Odili, and some taditional rulers from the state.
It was learnt that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and former Governor Of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, is also expected to be present for the meeting.
The meeting may not be unconnected with the political crisis that has rocked the state over the past few days.
Vice President Kashim Shettima; and the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila are also part of the meeting.
Rivers State has been a theatre of the absurd in the last three months with the state House of Assembly serving as the “boxing ring”. The rift between Wike and Fubara split lawmakers in the House with 27 of them decamping from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a party in whose central government Wike currently serves as minister.
The feud also saw the emergence of parallel sittings, an impeachment plot against the governor, the demolition of the Assembly complex, and a gale of resignations of pro-Wike commissioners in Fubara’s cabinet.
The President and some elder statesmen had intervened in the crisis earlier in October but it degenerated into a full-blown fight.
