Tinubu brokers truce as Fubara, Wike sign peace agreement… 

President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, held a meeting with Governor Siminalayi Fubara, a former governor of the state, Peter Odili, and other stakeholders at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, over the political crisis in Rivers State.

The meeting was the second intervention since the impasse between Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, started about two months ago.

The meeting between Tinubu and Rivers stakeholders was not unconnected to the untoward developments in the state where 27 out of 32 members of the state House of Assembly, who are loyalists of the FCT Minister defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Also at the closed-door meeting, which was underway as at press time, was the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, and the Rivers State deputy governor, Ngozi Odu. Others were Nuhu Ribadu, the National Security Adviser; PDP acting chairman in the state, Aaron Chukwuemeka; embattled Speaker of the House of Assembly, Martin Amaewhule; and chairman of the APC in the state.

Odili is regarded as the political godfather of many of the present dramatis personae in Rivers, including Wike.

At the end of the meeting, warring factions signed a peace agreement at the Presidential Villa.