Jonathan Nwokpor
According to Rivers State Governor Sim Fubara, intimidation has a shelf life and ends when it should.
Fubara’s statement coincides with his ongoing disagreement with Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Rivers State has been engulfed in a political crisis since October 30, 2023.
The situation became widely known after an explosion on the evening of October 29, 2023, which rocked the State Assembly complex’s sacred chamber.
After the fire incident, the State Assembly suspended four lawmakers and began the impeachment procedure against Fubara.
The state Assembly is currently sharply divided due to this episode, with 27 lawmakers supporting Wike and three sticking by Governor Fubara (after one lawmaker, Edison Ehie, resigned who now serves as his Chief-of-Staff.
President Bola Tinubu intervened in December 2023 in an effort to diffuse the situation, which resulted in the creation of an eight-point resolution that Wike and Fubara both signed.
Nevertheless, this peace accord did not control the state’s instability.
In their rekindled cold war, Wike and Fubara had traded jabs at one another over the weekend.
Speaking at the state’s Government House in Port Harcourt, Fubara said: “Intimidation has a time, and when it expires, it’s over. Even in the bible, Pharaoh intimidated the children of Israel, but it got to a time; the intimidation did not work again.
“Every bad thing that has a beginning has an end. Don’t worry about me – we have kept that behind; we are looking at the future.”
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