Rivers people deserve to know agreement between Tinubu, Fubara  —  Ann-Kio Briggs

Niger Delta rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, has demanded transparency connected the presumption of statement reached betwixt Governor Siminalayi Fubara and President Bola Tinubu earlier the extremity of the six-month exigency regularisation successful Rivers State.

Speaking connected Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Briggs argued that the radical of the authorities had the close to cognize what was agreed down closed doors, informing that soundlessness could erode the governor’s credibility.

“We are the radical who person paid the top terms successful each of these things, and to not beryllium alert of the determination which volition impact us, and therefore, we can’t gauge the grade to which these decisions volition impact us, it becomes precise hard to travel with the politicians,” she said.

According to her, withholding details of the pact was “unacceptable” to radical from the riverine country of the state, wherever Fubara hails from. 

“It’s conscionable an intolerable concern wherever we person recovered ourselves. We don’t cognize what the President has insisted on, we don’t cognize what was agreed upon, and wherever that leads the radical of Rivers State. So, we request to cognize what was agreed on,” she stressed.

Briggs besides joined calls for Rear Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.), who served arsenic the state’s sole head during the exigency period, to relationship for nationalist funds spent nether his watch. 

“The authorities funds spent during the exigency regularisation belonged to the radical of the authorities and should beryllium accounted for,” she said.

Fubara resumed bureau connected September 17, 2025, aft the exigency regularisation was lifted by President Tinubu. He was received astatine the Government House, Port Harcourt, by his wife, information heads, and stakeholders earlier inspecting his residence and resuming duties.

The governor, his lawman Ngozi Odu, and members of the authorities assembly had been suspended connected March 18, 2025, pursuing the declaration of exigency regularisation implicit governmental instability.

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The station Rivers radical merit to cognize statement betwixt Tinubu, Fubara  —  Ann-Kio Briggs appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.