My principal and I are working together- Gov Fubara says after meeting President Tinubu
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, says the political crisis that engulfed the state is now behind him following his reconciliation with his predecessor and current FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.
Speaking to State House correspondents after visiting President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Fubara, recently reinstated after a six-month suspension, confirmed that peace had returned to Rivers.
He expressed gratitude to Tinubu for intervening in the crisis, describing the President as a father figure and noting that his visit was to appreciate him and “tell him that I’m back.”
“I don’t know what you mean by if this is a paper peace. As far as I’m concerned, we have made peace. Fubara and his principal are working together,” he said when asked whether the peace was real or not.
“You’re aware that suspension was lifted [at] midnight [on September] 17, and I came in on the 19th. Ideally, it’s proper for me to see Mr. President and to tell him that I’m back, and I’ve also resumed my responsibility as the Governor of the Rivers State.
It’s not much. It’s father-son discussion, telling him thank you and and the areas where, if at all, there should be any issue for him to guide me properly so we don’t be in any situation of crisis. That’s all” Fubara said
