‘There Is No Law That Mandate Fubara To Resume Today,’ Says Wike

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and erstwhile politician of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has defended Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s lack from the Government House connected Thursday, aft expiration of the State of Emergency imposed connected the State, saying governance was not confined to carnal beingness successful office.

“See, determination is nary instrumentality that says Fubara indispensable resume today. He is simply a governor. I don’t recognize the mode we operate. I was sworn successful today, for example, it does not mean I volition spell to enactment tomorrow. You don’t cognize what my programmes are, you don’t cognize what the politician has scheduled to do, you don’t cognize wherever helium is,” Wike said during an interrogation connected Channels TV’s ‘Politics Today’ connected Thursday night.

“Governance does not mean you indispensable beryllium successful the bureau governing, no, it is not true. Do you cognize whether helium is successful Abuja doing 1 happening oregon the other?” helium added.

Wike disclosed that helium precocious spoke with Fubara and confirmed the governor’s movements. “I spoke with Fubara connected Wednesday. I told him I was leaving for Abuja past nighttime and helium told maine helium was going backmost (to Rivers) today, Thursday,” helium said.

When pressed connected whether helium had forgiven Fubara aft months of governmental tension, Wike replied: “I don’t speech to idiosyncratic who I person not forgiven.”

LEADERSHIP reports that Rivers State has been nether the spotlight since March erstwhile the rift betwixt Wike and his successor spiralled into convulsive protests, legislative crises, and wide instability. The chaos forced President Bola Tinubu to state exigency rule, appointing Rear Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.) arsenic Sole Administrator to reconstruct instrumentality and bid for six months.

For six months, Ibas oversaw governance, information operations, and mediation efforts to stabilise the state. On Thursday, Ibas formally handed implicit powerfulness backmost to Governor Fubara, declaring that “law and bid had been restored.”

Recall that hundreds of supporters who had gathered astatine the Government House, Port Harcourt, connected Thursday, to invited Governor Fubara went location disappointed due to the fact that of the governor’s absence.

Many of them, who arrived arsenic aboriginal arsenic 6 a.m. from crossed the state, waited for hours expecting the politician to formally resume bureau pursuing the handover of powerfulness to him. By noon, erstwhile it became wide helium would not appear, supporters began to disperse in frustration.