The caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s move to end the rift between the state governor, Simi Fubara and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has collapsed as crisis in the state has continued to fester.

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.

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

MomohMrMoore:
I dont know much about the issue but I think the demolition of the state house of assembly is a very bad move. Now it is irreconcilable. No sane person would want to settle the matter now given what the governor did.

Triangles1:
Arrogant wike should trend with caution, where's elrufai, where's Ribadu, where's saraki, what goes up must come down except you hang yourself in between planet.

YourKarma:
lolzzz....this is kinda amusing

sylve11:
Wike has been silent on this issue. I hope he ain't planning something big for Funbara.

TruthsFM:
Governor Fubara is heavily winning the war. No time to waste time. Tinubu can talk, he knows Niger delta people, he knows well that Niger delta people aren’t coward like the clueless Ambode of Lagos that was instigates fear in his life and kiss his second term bye bye. Tinubu will never back Wike in this fight. It’s laws of karma.

nnachukz:
Na grammar una speak.
If you don't play your card carefully well, the 27 or 25 house members will lose their seats.

Blackfire:
The druggie master will only side with fubara to weaken wikes madness and over bearing...

But in all this na river people go suffer am