President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently meeting with the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, the Former governor of Rivers State, Sir Peter Odili and some other stakeholders from the state at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike also joined the meeting holding at the State House, about 7:30pm on Monday.
This is coming on the heels of the face-off between the governor and his predecessor, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike.
The agenda of the meeting between the President and the leading characters in the Rivers State crisis is yet to be made public at the time of filing this report.
The meeting is not unconnected to the recent developments in the state in which 27 out of 32 members of the State House of Assembly, who are loyalists of the FCT Minister defected from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), to the All Progressives Congressm (APC).
Also at the meeting is the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima and the Rivers State Deputy Governor.
