Suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has held a gathering with the suspended Speaker of the Home of Meeting, Martins Amaewhule, together with different aggrieved state lawmakers.
A number of sources confirmed on Thursday night that the assembly concluded with Fubara holding Amaewhule’s hand as the 2 shared jokes and laughter.
It was learnt that the assembly, held in Abuja, marked the primary try at reconciliation between the governor and the state lawmakers.
A supply, who spoke to The Nation in confidence, described Fubara’s assembly with the lawmakers as productive, however famous {that a} bigger peace assembly is deliberate to debate the phrases of reconciliation.
“The suspended Governor is decided to make peace. He has began the actual engagement,” the supply stated.
Fubara was suspended from workplace on 19 March after President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers State, a transfer later accepted by the Nationwide Meeting to stem the escalating political disaster within the state.
The president appointed former Naval Chief, Vice-Admiral Ibok Ete-Ibas, as administrator for Rivers for an preliminary six-month interval to permit the warring politicians to reconcile their variations.
Although Fubara had beforehand met along with his estranged benefactor, Nyesom Wike, and President Tinubu relating to the Rivers state of affairs, the Thursday assembly with the lawmakers was stated to be probably the most important step but in the direction of real reconciliation.
Wike had acknowledged on a number of events that for any significant reconciliation to happen, Fubara should meet with the varied stakeholders he had offended, notably members of the Home of Meeting, whose salaries and allowances he reportedly withheld for over two years.
