President Bola Tinubu late Monday evening went into a closed-door meeting with stakeholders from Rivers State at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Rivers State stakeholders were led by Governor Siminalayi Fubara into the State House.
It was gathered that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, was also expected to be present for the meeting.
The meeting comes after weeks of political turmoil between Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike.
Vice President Kashim Shettima, deputy governor of Rivers State and the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, were also part of the meeting.
However, the agenda of the meeting was not made public, but it may be connected with the December 11 debacle as Rivers State has become a theatre of the absurd in the last three months with the state House of Assembly serving as the boxing ring where 27 out of 32 members of the Assembly known to be Wike’s loyalists defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC ), a party in whose central government Wike currently serves as minister.
The crisis 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.
The President and some elder statesmen had intervened in the crisis earlier in October but it snowballed into a full-blown fight.
