PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu is currently in a closed-door meeting with Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
According to Channels, Fubara, who arrived at the Presidential Villa around 5.40pm on Thursday, proceeded directly to the President’s office, where the meeting is currently taking place behind closed doors.
The purpose of the visit remains undisclosed as of the time of this report.
This marks Fubara’s first visit to the Presidential Villa since the signing of the eight-point agreement following Tinubu’s intervention in the dispute between the governor and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.
Rivers State has been embroiled in a crisis falling a fallout between Fubara and Wike.
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.
In October, the President and some elder statesmen intervened in the crisis earlier but it degenerated into a full-blown fight. Worried by the situation, Tinubu again met with political gladiators in the oil-rich South-South state on December 18, 2023 and a truce was reached.
At the meeting which had in attendance Fubara, Wike, ex-Rivers governor, Peter Odili; and some traditional rulers from the state as well as Vice President Kashim Shettima; and the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, some resolutions were made.
Among these is that the warring parties agreed that all matters instituted in the courts by Fubara, and his team, be withdrawn immediately.
Despite efforts at resolving the lingering feud between the duo, the crisis seemed to be far from being over with the noticeable absence of Governor Fubara at the luncheon hosted by Wike in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Sunday.
While Wike was present at the luncheon with many of his allies, Fubara and his men both in the House of Assembly and the two other organs of government were conspicuously absent.
