{"id":12571,"date":"2026-11-08T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/tinubu-says-fubara-will-not-regret-peace-maturity-during-rivers-political-crisis-businessday-ng-2\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T17:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T17:00:51","slug":"tinubu-says-fubara-will-not-regret-peace-maturity-during-rivers-political-crisis-businessday-ng-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/tinubu-says-fubara-will-not-regret-peace-maturity-during-rivers-political-crisis-businessday-ng-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu says Fubara will not regret peace, maturity during Rivers political crisis – Businessday NG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bola Tinubu, president of Nigeria, has praised Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers State, for his stance on peace and maturity during the political crisis that engulfed the oil-rich state in 2023 and lasted for almost three years.\n<\/p>\n

The crisis, which broke out in the early days of Fubara\u2019s administration, pitted his supporters against those of Nyesom Wike, minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It led to more than three attempts by the Martin Amaewhule-led state House of Assembly to impeach the governor.\n<\/p>\n

Almost three years after the initial steps that led to the conflict, the alleged first attempt to impeach the governor and the October 2023 damage to the state House of Assembly complex, Fubara and his support group, the Simplified Movement, returned to the Wike-led Rainbow Coalition and acknowledged the FCT minister as their \u201cfather and leader\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

Tinubu, while speaking at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign rally in Port Harcourt on Saturday, praised Fubara for accepting peace and respecting the advice of elders during the Rivers political crisis.\n<\/p>\n

He said the governor\u2019s actions helped restore stability in the state, adding: \u201cGov. Sim Fubara, you will not regret what you have done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tinubu said: \u201cDuring the seeming Rivers political crisis created by misunderstanding in the family, I intervened on your behalf.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cSir Siminalayi Fubara, Your Excellency, the host Governor of today, I want to thank you specifically for your maturity, understanding and respect for the wisdom of elders when we intervened.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYou respected our position; you maintained peace. You are a committed democrat. Fubara, you will not regret what you have done as long as all of us are alive,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s assurance gives hope to supporters of the Rivers governor, who has expressed a desire for \u201ca soft landing\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

Residents of the state, such as Godwin Chukwumachi, had asked: \u201cNow that he (Fubara) is not coming back as governor, will they give him a ministerial or ambassadorial position?\u201d<\/p>\n

When Wike was asked during his media chat in Port Harcourt whether he would support Fubara for a future political appointment, the FCT minister did not give an explicit answer. He said the governor was young and had the future ahead of him.\n<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Wike and Fubara have promised to support Tinubu\u2019s re-election bid. Fubara said Rivers State would deliver at least three million votes to back the President in the January 2027 presidential election.\n<\/p>\n

Fubara and Wike praised Tinubu for supporting Rivers during its political crisis and for funding federal projects in the state.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cRivers will give you three million votes. We will stand by you. We will work for you. We will deliver for you,\u201d Fubara said.\n<\/p>\n

Wike added: \u201cRivers State has already concluded; Rivers State has already agreed that come January 16, 2027, they will vote for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fubara said: \u201cThe entire Rivers State and this region is grateful to you for your unwavering love and commitment to Rivers State and this region, for stability and economic progress.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Peace and reconciliation\n<\/p>\n

Fubara thanked Tinubu for helping to end the political crisis in Rivers. He said the President\u2019s intervention kept the state government standing and allowed it to continue serving the people.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen our state was at a crossroads, you intervened as a father and as a true statesman amidst intense political uncertainty.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYou did not look away. You reached out with a fatherly call for peace and harmony, intervened directly and made personal sacrifice so our administration could remain standing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Federal support\n<\/p>\n

Fubara thanked Tinubu for supporting Rivers with federal projects and appointments. He cited the ongoing Calabar-Lagos Coastal Road and the appointment of more than 40 Rivers people to federal positions.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past three and a half years, we have demonstrated through strategic federal support and the delivery of key infrastructure projects, including the ongoing Calabar-Lagos Coastal Road,\u201d Fubara said.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are grateful that you have entrusted our sons and daughters\u2026 you appointed over 40-something Rivers indigenes, including the minister, our leader, entrusting him with very sensitive responsibility, which he is also delivering,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n

Wike also praised Tinubu for appointing Rivers people to federal positions. He said the President had shown that he valued the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the inception of democracy in 1999, Rivers people have never had it this way. We have never had 47 political appointments from Mr President,\u201d Wike said.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHe identified with the people of Rivers State because he concluded the Calabar-Lagos Coastal Road\u2026 he established federal presence in Rivers,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n

Wike said the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium could seat 40,000 people. He said the crowd at the rally came from Rivers State, not from other states.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWelcome to Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 40,000\u2014not 20,000, not 16,000, not 10,000, but 40,000 seating capacity.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a Rivers State rally. We did not mobilise anybody from any other state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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