BREAKING: Tension in Rivers as Fubara’s whereabouts unknown

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The current location of Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, remains uncertain amid rumors suggesting he may soon return to Port Harcourt.

During the Morning Show program, Friday Olokor, an Arise Television correspondent based in Rivers State, provided an update, noting that the state remains relatively peaceful despite ongoing political unrest.

Rear Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, the former Sole Administrator of Rivers State, has officially transferred authority back to the reinstated Governor Fubara.

In his farewell address broadcast across the state, Ibas called on citizens to rally behind Fubara as he resumes leadership responsibilities.

It will be recalled that President Bola Tinubu had previously suspended Governor Fubara six months ago while implementing emergency governance in the state.

However, on Wednesday, the President ended the emergency rule and restored Fubara to office.

Giving further insight into the current developments, Olokor pointed out that the governor’s absence has led to a sense of unease and a perceived leadership gap, leaving many residents uncertain about what lies ahead.

He also mentioned that the state House of Assembly, which remains divided into factions, continues to hold parallel sessions to carry out its legislative work.

According to Olokor, the ongoing political rift has only intensified the difficulties experienced by the local population, who remain directly affected by the turmoil.

He concluded by saying there is growing hope that both factions within the Assembly will seek common ground to avoid a recurrence of past political instability in the state.

He said: “Yes, thank you very much, as is expected right now in Rivers state, Port Harcourt specifically, the atmosphere is cool. There is no problem. The fact is that, for right now, the whereabouts of the governor is not still known, even though there are speculation that he might come in today.

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“Rivers state is being bandied as the hotbed of political antagonism but from what we are seeing right now, the atmosphere is cool, calm, cozy. There’s no problem. And for the House of Assembly, we are still expressing some members of the House of Assembly right now.

“Well, like as you know, a leadership is not supposed to have a vacuum. But since the governor is not around down, the atmosphere is tense, and the people of Rivers are waiting because nobody really know the whereabouts of the governor.

“So as it is now, the sole administrator, everybody, they are waiting to see what’s going on. But with the way it is now, nobody knows the time the governor is going to be around and how the handover is really going to be.

“Whatever I am going to tell you is going to be what I would call a political conjecture. For right now, it is the same, and nothing has really been known about the whereabouts of the governor, whether he’s going to come or not.

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“Of course, normally, since a new the government is coming back, now, the feelings is that the members of the state assembly, even though factionalized, will be meeting in separate places to really put the acts together, because the state has suffered a vacuum in terms of legislation.

“The people have really suffered like it is said that where two elephants fight, it is the ground that suffers. The people of Rivers state have suffered a lot, and it is believed that they should come together to write, put things together, to really move everything forward.

“For right now, the members of the House of Assembly, it is believed that they might be meeting somewhere, the 20 members of the House of Assembly belonging to the APC and the other three. It is understood that they are meeting separately, trying to put this in order to make sure that the act of legislation continues.

“Definitely based on fillers, individually, there’s no way you cannot rule out the fact that factions will still be there, even though elections have been held and won.

“What matters is they coming together to put the past behind them, to move ahead, because the state, the people of the state have suffered. And the crave here is that history should not repeat itself again.”

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