Rivers Crisis: President Tinubu holds close door meeting with Fubara, Odili, others

President Bola Tinubu today held a closed-door meeting with the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, at the Presidential Villa Abuja.

It was gathered that Fubara was accompanied to the seat of power by the former governor of Rivers State, Sir Peter Odili, and other stakeholders from the state.

There are speculations that the meeting between Tinubu and Fubara is connected to the ongoing face-off between the governor and his predecessor, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.

Although, it’s not clear if Nyesom Wike was at the meeting but he was earlier sighted at the State House.

Sources within the presidency confirmed that the meeting is a measure to resolve the crisis that has enveloped the state in recent times, wherein 27 out of 32 members of the State House of Assembly, who are loyalists of the FCT Minister, defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.