President Bola Tinubu has met with the Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, the former governor of Rivers State, Peter Odili, and some other stakeholders from the state at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday evening, over the ongoing political crisis in the State.
This is coming on the heels of the face-off between the governor and his predecessor, who is the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike.
The meeting may be connected to the recent developments in the state in which 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 meeting was the Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, and the Rivers State deputy governor.
LEADERSHIP reports that the details of the outcome of the meeting were being awaited at the time of this report.
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