The caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, on Thursday disclosed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s intervention to settle the rift between the state governor, Simi Fubara and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike ended abruptly.
Recall that Tinubu recently held a meeting with Wike and Fubara at the presidential villa in Abuja, to broker peace between the two politicians in the state.
Speaking at a press conference held at the APC national secretariat on Thursday in Abuja, Okocha said the peace intervention had broken down.
He said: “I wasn’t part of it, but whatever that was it, has broken down, and it has been broken irreconcilably.”
Okocha said the five members of the state House of Assembly led by the factional Speaker, Edison Ehie, who sat and passed the budget presented to them by Governor Fubara for the 2024 fiscal year were proceeding in illegality, adding that their action would not stand.
He revealed that APC was wooing Wike to defect to the party, stressing that as soon as he becomes a member of the APC, he would become the party’s leader in the state.
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