Tinubu’s peace move in Rivers has failed — APC

Mr Tony Okocha, the caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has said President Bola Tinubu’s move to resolve the face-off between governor Simi Fubara and Minister of the federal capital territory, Barrister Nyesom Wike, has collapsed as the political crisis in the state has continued to escalate.

President Tinubu last month held a meeting with Wike and Fubara at the presidential villa in Abuja, to broker peace between the warring duo.

But in the last four days, the crisis assumed a disturbing dimension with the demolition of the state House of Assembly Complex and defection of 27 members of the assembly said to be loyal to Wike, to the APC.

While addressing a press conference at the APC national secretariat on Thursday in Abuja over the current political situation in Rivers State, Okocha said, “I wasn’t part of it, but whatever that was it, has broken down, and it has been broken irreconcilably.”

He also said the four members of the state House of Assembly led by the Speaker, Honourable Edison Ehie, who sat and passed the budget presented to them by governor Fubara for the 2024 fiscal year were dwelling on illegality, adding that their action would not stand.

Speaking further, Okocha said the 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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