Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike; Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara; and Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Martins Amaewhule, met with members of the Rivers State Elders Council in a closed-door meeting on Saturday night at a secret venue in Port Harcourt.
The Rivers State Elders Council chairman, Chief Ferdinand Alabraba, was in charge of the meeting, which took place at a secret venue in the Sate capital.
It was a show of reconciliation and unity between the key political players in the state, according to the Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on Public Communication and New Media, Lere Olayinka, who shared pictures of the exercise on his social media pages early on Sunday morning.
FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara, Rivers State Elders Council Chairman Chief Ferdinand Alabraba, Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly Martins Amaewhule, and other leaders during a meeting in Port Harcourt yesterday. The political family is completely united,” Olayinka wrote.
He, however, refused to indicate the agenda or outcome of the deliberations. Olayinka declined to say anything further about the agenda or decisions made at the meeting.
The conference is the first major stakeholders’ engagement since September 18, 2025, when Governor Fubara, his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, and Rivers State House of Assembly members were restored. They were restored following a six-month state of emergency declared by President Bola Tinubu on March 18, 2025, after an extended political crisis that ravaged the state.
Political commentators view the meeting as a step in the right direction towards reconciliation and political harmony in Rivers State after months of hostilities between the loyalists of Wike and Fubara.
