Anxiety in Fubara’s camp over meeting with Wike, Rivers Elders

By Daniel Abia, Port Harcourt

Tension has reportedly emerged successful the campy of Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, pursuing a closed-door gathering helium held with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, successful Port Harcourt connected Saturday.

The meeting, which took spot astatine the residence of Chief Ferdinand Alabraba, Chairman of the Rivers State Elders Council, was described by sources arsenic a “family reunion” alternatively than a governmental negotiation.

According to a root acquainted with the gathering, the league was informal, involving airy conversations and appreciation to elders for their relation successful fostering bid aft the state’s caller governmental crisis.

Photographs from the meeting, which surfaced connected Sunday, showed Governor Fubara attending without his adjacent allies, portion respective associates of the FCT curate were present. This, however, sparked unease among immoderate members of the governor’s camp, who expressed interest astir being excluded from specified engagements.

It was learnt that discussions besides touched connected the caller dissolution of definite authorities agencies and imaginable aboriginal governmental appointments. Elders astatine the gathering reportedly advised caution to debar undermining the fragile bid successful the state.

Other matters raised included the operation of the authorities executive, cardinal appointments, and the wide stableness of governance successful Rivers State.

While speculations arose astir broader governmental realignments, neither the politician nor the curate has made immoderate authoritative connection connected the result of the meeting.

The station Anxiety successful Fubara’s campy implicit gathering with Wike, Rivers Elders appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.