The caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, on Thursday said moves by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu 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.
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 the crisis in the state assumed a new dimension in the last four days beginning with the defection of 27 members of the assembly loyal to Wike.
Addressing a press conference at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, Okocha said the peace move by Tinubu to end the strained relationship between Fubara and Wike has apparently not yielded the desired result.
“I wasn’t part of it, but whatever that was, it has broken down, and it has been broken irreconcilably,” Okocha said.
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.
