Suspended Rivers Governor Siminalayi Fubara has paid a courtesy visit to President Bola Tinubu in Lagos. The Special Adviser on Media and Information Strategy to the President, Bayo Onanuga, confirmed the visit. Tinubu, in a nationwide broadcast on March 18, 2025 declared a state of emergency citing the need to restore law and order as…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has charged supporters, Rivers people, and Nigerians to thank President Bola Tinubu for his swift intervention to salvage the state from anarchy arising from the festering political crisis. He also said that the peace and reconciliation process, which was a precursor to restoring all executive and legislative institutions and offices,…
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said that the suspended Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, remains his political son and that he has never fought with him. Wike made the statement in an interview with BBC Pidgin, published on Saturday afternoon, where he clarified his position on the ongoing political…
The sexual harassment allegation by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has surfaced in an examination question at the Department of Sociology, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto state. The political crisis in Rivers state which led to the declaration of the state of emergency by President Bola Tinubu also made it into the…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has confirmed that Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, recently visited him with two All Progressives Congress (APC) governors to seek peace. Wike made the statement while speaking to journalists on Monday. “Fubara came to me with two Governors and one elder statesman. Just that they are…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the suspended governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has said he is not desperate to return to office. Fubara disclosed this at the service of songs held in honour of the late elder statesman, Edwin Clark, in Port Harcourt, on Sunday. “Can’t you see how better I look? Do you think…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has condemned the action of a group of women loyal to suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, over their walkout on the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, during an empowerment programme in Port Harcourt, the state capital. The minister described the incident as a “show of…
The suspended Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, recently visited the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, at his Abuja residence to beg for reconciliation, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt. The visit came a few days after Mr Fubara held a meeting in London with President Bola Tinubu over his (Fubara) political feud with Mr Wike,…
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has pleaded with Governor Similaye Fubara of Rivers State to remain in the party and not defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. George made the appeal during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today. According to him, the PDP have a structure and…
Indications emerged on Tuesday that President Bola Tinubu met with suspended Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, in London, while on working visit. Although, The Africa Report said that the meeting was at the instance of Governor Fubara, the Presidency kept sealed lips on the matter. Attempts made to get confirmation from the Presidency could…