BREAKING: Tinubu’s plan to resolve Rivers crisis has crumbled, says APC

Tony Okocha, the caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, has stated President Bola Tinubu’s move to repair the split between the state governor, Simi Fubara, and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has collapsed as the crisis in the state continues.

Recall that Tinubu recently met with Wike and Fubara at the presidential palace in Abuja to mediate peace between the two state politicians.

However, in the last four days, the issue has taken on a new dimension with the demolition of the state House of Assembly Complex and the defection of 27 assembly members loyal to Wike to the APC.

Addressing a press conference at the APC national secretariat on Thursday in Abuja, following the developments in the state, Okocha said:

“I wasn’t part of it, but whatever that was it, has broken down, and it has been broken irreconcilably.”

He also said the four members of the state House of Assembly led by the factional Speaker, Edison Ehie, who sat and passed the budget presented to them by Governor Fubara for the 2024 fiscal year were dwelling on illegality, saying their action would not stand.

Okocha said the APC was wooing Wike to defect to the party, stressing that as soon as he becomes a member of the APC, he would become the party’s leader in the state.

More details to follow…….