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The Rivers Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the last general elections, Tonye Cole has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s intervention in the political crisis between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike ensured the resolution of the dispute.
He made the remark on Wednesday, while featuring as a guest on Channels TVs \u2018Morning Brief\u2019. Cole blamed the fallout between Fubara and his predecessor, Wike for what he described as \u201ca very, very unfortunate state of emergency.\u201d in Rivers state.
He said: \u201cI recall always saying the only person who can resolve the Rivers crisis when the governor, Sim Fubara, and the Honourable Minister Nyesom Wike had a very public falling out is Mr President. If he had not weighed in, there is no way the issue would have been resolved.
\u201cWe found ourselves in a very, very unfortunate state of emergency \u2014 one which was not welcomed at all, but that\u2019s where we are\u201d.
According to him, the president\u2019s intervention led to a reconciliation between the Governor and the FCT Minister, though the process left the governor politically constrained.
\u201cAnd in the midst of all of that, there was a reconciliation between the governor and his godfather, the Honourable Minister. It was not a palatable situation but that\u2019s where we are,\u201d he said.
\u201cTomorrow we have the governor coming back and the scenario is like when he started \u2014 which is that he found out that he was totally surrounded and could not take decisions by himself.\u201d
He stressed that the \u201cstatus quo\u201d was the very situation that triggered Fubara\u2019s initial clash with Wike.
\u201cI believe that we are finding ourselves back to the very, very beginning. Status quo revealed that he\u2019s returned to the situation that caused him to begin his fight,\u201d Cole added.<\/p>\n
The article was originally published on Politics Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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