The All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker Committee Chairman in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, has indicated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s attempt to reconcile the ongoing dispute between the state governor, Simi Fubara, and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike has failed.
Despite Tinubu’s recent meeting with Wike and Fubara at the presidential villa in Abuja, the state’s crisis has persisted.
Over the past four days, the conflict has escalated, marked by the demolition of the State House of Assembly Complex and the defection of 27 assembly members, previously aligned with Wike, to the APC.
Addressing a press conference at the APC national secretariat on Thursday in Abuja, following the developments in the state, including the peace move by Tinubu to end the strained relationship between Fubara and Wike, 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 factional Speaker, Edison Ehie, who sat and passed the budget presented to them by Governor Fubara for the 2024 fiscal year were dwelling on illegality, saying their action would not stand.
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.
