RIVERS State Governor Siminalayi Fubara, on Thursday, January 11, said his closed-door meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, was a private one.
The governor, who arrived at the Villa around 5.35 pm and left over an hour later, refused to disclose the purpose or outcome of his visit to journalists, simply saying it was a private visit.
The governor had earlier met the President alongside his estranged political godfather and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, at the peak of the political crisis in the state following attempts to impeach him and his government’s subsequent demolition of the Assembly complex in Port Harcourt. His recent visit might not be unconnected wit the lingering crisis.
At the end of the December 18, last year meeting, at the behest of the President to seek an end to the crisis, an eight-point resolution was signed, even as Tinubu directed that all courts cases instituted by Fubara and his team over the political crisis be withdrawn immediately.
Fubara was also mandated to re-present this year’s Appropriation Bill he had earlier presented to the four-member state House of Assembly, led by Edison Ehie, to a full House.
The resolution was endorsed by Fubara; Deputy Governor, Prof. Ngozi Ordu; Wike; National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu; Speaker, Rivers State Assembly, Martin Amaewhule; state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman, Aaron Chukwuemeka and state All Progressives Congress (APC) APC Chairman, Tony Okocha.
