{"id":64440,"date":"2025-04-18T12:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64440"},"modified":"2025-04-18T12:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:30:23","slug":"wike-rejects-emergency-rule-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/18\/wike-rejects-emergency-rule-in-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Rejects Emergency Rule in Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has voiced his dissatisfaction with the recent declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers, saying it was not the solution he had hoped for.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a media chat with selected journalists in Abuja on Friday, Wike admitted that he had wanted Governor Siminalayi Fubara removed from office outright, not the imposition of emergency rule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not happy with the state of emergency,&#8221; Wike said. &#8220;As a politician, I wanted the outright removal of the governor. But for the interest of the state, the president did the right thing to prevent anarchy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu had last month declared the state of emergency following escalating political unrest and growing insecurity, including pipeline explosions.<\/p>\n<p>The decision led to the suspension of Governor Fubara, Deputy Governor Ngozi Odu, and all House of Assembly members for six months.<\/p>\n<p>In their place, Vice Admiral Ibas was appointed sole administrator to manage the state pending resolution of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The political turmoil in Rivers deepened following a prolonged rift between Wike and Fubara, rooted in a power struggle over control of the state&#8217;s political and economic structures.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict spilled into the state legislature, where 27 lawmakers defected to the opposition and rival factions emerged, each claiming legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p>Wike insisted he has no obligation to shield Fubara. &#8220;The governor was gone. It is not in my place to make it good for him,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite court proceedings and rising tensions, the former governor reaffirmed his stance: \u201cMy business as a politician is not to make him comfortable. That is why there is something called power play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has voiced his dissatisfaction with the recent declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers, saying it was not the solution he had hoped for. Speaking during a media chat with selected journalists in Abuja on Friday, Wike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64442,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64440\/revisions\/64442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}