Rivers Crisis: Itubo have conversation with Fubara

Amid the unfolding political crisis in Rivers State, the Labour Party’s 2023 Governorship Candidate, Beatrice Itubo, is presently in talks with Governor Siminalayi Fubara of the Peoples Democratic Party.

“I met with the Governor and discussion is still in progress,” Itubo told our correspondent.

She, however, did not stretch details if she was discarding the LP for the PDP or just in talks to back the Fubara-led administration from her party.

Itubo disclosed that she would only give details when they concluded their deliberations.

Twenty-seven members of the Rivers State House of Assembly on Monday defected from the PDP to the All Progressive Congress (APC).

The 27 members were said to be loyal to Martins Amaewhule, who is a supporter of Nyesom Wike, a former governor of the state till May 29, 2023.

The crisis in the 32-member Assembly had begun as a result of a crack between Fubara and his predecessor, Wike.

Meanwhile, elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has again admonished President Bola Tinubu to call Wike, the current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to order over the political situation in Rivers State.

Clark said if all former governors insist on governing their successors, there will be chaos in the country.