Rivers Crisis: Resolutions Reached To End Fued After Another Meeting With President Tinubu

Following another intervention by President Bola Tinubu in the political turmoil in Rivers state, the key gladiators on Monday reached a truce to resolve the crisis.

The President had held a meeting with the warring sides in a bid to find a lasting solution to the crisis.

At the Monday’s meeting were Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, and now the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, former governor of the state, Peter Odili; as well as some traditional rulers from the state.

Vice President Kashim Shettima; and the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila were also part of the meeting.

At the end of the meeting, various resolution were reached. The warring parties agreed that all matters instituted in the courts by Fubara, and his team, be withdrawn immediately. Fubara, Wike, Amaewhule and other gladiators in the crisis signed the agreement.

The Wike camp also agreed that all impeachment proceedings initiated against the governor by the Rivers State House of Assembly be dropped immediately

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The parties in the feud agreed to recognise the leadership of Martin Amaewhule in the Rivers State House of Assembly and not that of Edison Ehie.

The two camps agreed to recognise Amaewhule and his 26 allies who resigned from the PDP to the APC.

Other resolutions include “The remunerations and benefits of all members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and their staff must be reinstated immediately and the Governor of Rivers State shall henceforth not interfere with the full funding of the Rivers State House of Assembly

“The Rivers State House of Assembly shall choose where they want to sit and conduct their legislative business without interference and/or hindrance from the Executive arm of Government

“The Governor of Rivers State, Sir Fubara, shall re-present the state budget to a properly constituted Rivers State House of Assembly

“The names of all commissioners in the Rivers State Executive Council who resigned their appointments because of the political crisis in the state should be resubmitted to the House of Assembly for approval

“There should not be a caretaker committee for the local governments in Rivers State. The dissolution of the Local Government administration is null and void and shall not be recognised.”