Rivers Crisis Would Have Defied Solution Without Tinubu’s Intervention — Tonye Cole

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship campaigner of Rivers State successful the 2023 wide elections, Tonye Cole has stated that the involution of President Bola Tinubu successful the governmental situation betwixt Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike was the crushed for the solution of the dispute.

Speaking connected Channels Television’s ‘Morning Brief’ connected Wednesday, Cole revisited the nationalist fallout betwixt Fubara and his predecessor, describing the occurrence arsenic 1 that pushed Rivers into what helium termed “a very, precise unfortunate authorities of emergency.”

“I callback ever saying the lone idiosyncratic who tin resoluteness the Rivers situation erstwhile the governor, Sim Fubara, and the Honourable Minister Nyesom Wike had a precise nationalist falling retired is Mr President. If helium had not weighed in, determination is nary mode the contented would person been resolved.

“We recovered ourselves successful a very, precise unfortunate authorities of exigency — 1 which was not welcomed astatine all, but that’s wherever we are,” helium noted.

Cole recalled that the president’s involution led to a reconciliation betwixt Governor Fubara and Wike, though the process near the politician politically constrained.

“And successful the midst of each of that, determination was a reconciliation betwixt the politician and his godfather, the Honourable Minister. It was not a palatable concern but that’s wherever we are,” helium added.

According to him, caller governmental developments suggested that Governor Fubara is erstwhile again backmost successful a presumption akin to erstwhile helium archetypal assumed office, incapable to enactment independently of the forces astir him.

“Tomorrow we person the politician coming backmost and the script is similar erstwhile helium started — which is that helium recovered retired that helium was wholly surrounded and could not instrumentality decisions by himself,” helium said.

He stressed that the “status quo” was the precise concern that triggered Fubara’s archetypal clash with Wike.

“I judge that we are uncovering ourselves backmost to the very, precise beginning. Status quo revealed that he’s returned to the concern that caused him to statesman his fight,” helium stated.

Looking ahead, helium said the politician present faces a stark prime to either judge the aforesaid presumption quo helium fought against oregon hole for different governmental confrontation.

“So we are going to spot if this clip astir he’s going to take to unrecorded with the presumption quo that helium fought against oregon spell backmost to different fight. Only the politician tin tell us,” he said.