BREAKING: Wike, Fubara Feud Gets More Dramatic in Rivers as Another Factional Speaker Emerges

TheTalk.NG journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has over 9 years of experience covering politics in Nigeria.

Port Harcourt, Rivers state – There is a new twist to the crisis rocking Rivers as a factional speaker, Victor Oko Jumbo, has emerged in the state house of assembly.

As reported by The Nation on Wednesday, May 8, the emergence of Jumbo, representing Bonny constituency, has led to the total collapse of the peace deal brokered between the parties by President Bola Tinubu, returning all involved in the impasse to the trenches.

According to Leadership newspaper, Jumbo takes over from the former factional speaker of the house, Edison Ehie, who resigned as both speaker and member of the house on December 31, 2023.

Subsequently, Ehie was appointed as chief of staff (CoS) to Governor Sim Fubara.

TheTalk.NG reports that the political crisis in the oil-rich south-south state appears to be festering despite the peace deal brokered by President Tinubu in December 2023.

More to follow…

Source: TheTalk.NG

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