Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara has sounded a note of warning to the local council chairmen in the state, declaring that those disrespecting him as governor of the state have already dug their pit and will soon fall into it. Fubara made the declaration on Thursday while speaking At the commissioning of the Comprehensive Primary Health Centre in Ndoni, …

Former coordinators of the Grassroots Development Initiative (CDI), a political arm of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 12 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Rivers State have pledged their support for Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The coordinators represent Obio/Akpor, Ogu/Bolo, Port Harcourt City, Opobo/Nkoro, Gokana, Bonny, Ahoada West, Ahoada East, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, Oyigbo, Asari-Toru, and Akuku-Toru LGAs. The former coordinator in Obio/Akpor …

After President Bola Tinubu intervened in the seismic crisis that rocked oil-rich Rivers State last week, one thing and two people unraveled. By their unraveling, pretentious veils were lifted off their faces. They were, the president himself, the nature of Nigeria’s presidential democracy and the governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara. Nigerians distrusted the piece of paper that emanated from …

If Nyesom Wike had read the character portrait of the Ijaw man as sketched by Dr. Percy Amoury Talbot, an early 20th century British historian and colonial administrator, he would most probably have thought twice before settling for Siminalayi Fubara as his third term placeholder. Wike was a two-term governor of Rivers State and today, Minister of the Federal Capital …

A staunch member of the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nkechi Amadi has charged the people of the state to be wary of buying into the deception around the political expediency being promoted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in order to justify its recent adoption of the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for …

A  group within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on River State Governor Nyesom Wike to give account of all his recent financial donations to members of the G-5 governors of the party. The G-5 governors, led by Wike, have his counterparts in Benue, Oyo, Enugu and Abia States are members. They have repeatedly raised their voice against the …