The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, says suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State is making reconciliatory moves and had, alongside two other governors, visited him.
Wike, the immediate past governor of Rivers State, said this on Monday following reports that Fubara, who was suspended earlier in the year, visited the FCT minister.
The rift between Wike and Fubara threw Rivers into a political crisis, which lingered for months and reached a crescendo when President Bola Tinubu suspended Fubara, the Rivers Assembly, and the state’s deputy governor, Ngozi Odu.
Tinubu thereafter appointed a state administrator whom he saddled with running Rivers affairs for six months in a major political event that split opinions among Nigerians.
Months after the suspension, Wike said that though Fubara is suing for peace, the suspended governor needs to take more conciliatory steps instead of allegedly organising protests against the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State.
Wike claimed that Fubara was deceived by some governors before the crisis snowballed.
