Barely three months after peace was brokered between the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike and his political son, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, the political actors in Rivers State are gearing up for an additional disaster.
DAIL POST learnt that the members of the Rivers State Home of Meeting led by the Speaker, Martins Amaewhule, who’re loyal to the FCT Minister are set for an additional face-off with the governor.
Recall {that a} political battle birthed by an intense battle between Fubara and Wike over the management of the state’s political construction had erupted in late 2023, a number of months after the governor assumed workplace.
The face-off between the 2 leaders subsequently worsened in 2024 after the Martins Amaewhule-led members of the state Meeting joined the struggle.
DAILY POST recollects that about 27 lawmakers loyal to the FCT Minister on December 11, 2023 dumped the Peoples Democratic Occasion, PDP for the All Progressives Congress, APC.
However the defection didn’t go down nicely as Fubara-backed members of the home, on July 6, 2024 declared their seats vacant, escalating the political stress within the state.
The disaster lingered till Could 18, 2025, when President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency in Rivers, suspending Fubara, his deputy and members of the State Home of Meeting for a interval of six months.
Nevertheless, on July 27, 2025, Tinubu met with Fubara, Wike and Amaewhule on the State Home the place he brokered peace between the soldiers.
Barely three months after that, a recent shot of the disaster began brewing in December 1st, 2025 when Amaewhule vehemently criticized Governor Fubara’s administration, accusing the federal government of neglecting public main and secondary faculties within the state.
In a viral video, Amaewhule might be heard saying that the decay below the federal government’s watch is unacceptable and embarrassing.
Amaewhule mentioned it was “a tragic commentary” that public faculties within the oil-rich state have deteriorated to the purpose the place vandals have taken over college premises, pupils study with out academics, and one trainer is pressured to show two courses concurrently.
16 lawmakers dump Fubara’s PDP
Amaewhule and 15 different members of the meeting on Friday, December 5, dumped Fubara’s PDP for the ruling All Progressives Congress, signaling one other section of disaster within the state.
The fifteen lawmakers embody the Deputy Speaker, Dumle Maol (Gokana); Main Jack (Akuku-Toru); Linda Stewart (Okrika); Franklin Nwabochi (Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni); Azeru Opara (Port Harcourt 3); Good Adoki (Port Harcourt 2); Enemi George (Asari-Toru 2); and Solomon Wami (Port Harcourt 1).
Others are Aforji (Eleme); Tekena Wellington (Asari-Toru 1); Looloo Opuende (Akuku-Toru 2); Peter Abbey (Degema); Arnold Dennis (Ogu/Bolo); Chimezie Nwankwo (Etche); and Ofiks Kabang (Andoni).
Meeting questions Fubara’s delay in presenting commissioners
One other signal of a recent disaster emerged on Friday when the meeting tackled the governor for delaying the submission of an inventory of commissioner-nominees for screening.
DAILY POST recollects that in the course of the Home’s first sitting following the suspension of the emergency rule in September 2025, the Meeting urged the governor to ahead an inventory of commissioner-nominees to make sure efficient governance within the state.
Fubara had earlier dismissed all commissioners appointed in the course of the top of the political disaster, as they weren’t screened by the constitutionally acknowledged Meeting as declared by the Supreme Courtroom ruling.
Nevertheless, the governor has been unable to ahead a recent checklist of commissioner-nominees to the home, triggering one other face-off.
This isn’t what Rivers folks want now – ADC Chairman
The Chairman of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Rivers State chapter, Chief Sampson mentioned the state doesn’t want one other wave of disaster for the time being.
Sampson in an interview with DAILY POST warned the meeting members and different events concerned within the brewing disaster to not jeopardize the lives of Rivers folks over egocentric pursuits.
He mentioned, “That is clearly not what the state wants proper now. After resolving the problems they’d earlier, and the state of emergency was lifted, we anticipated that the legislative arm of the federal government would collaborate with the chief for the event of the state.
“Nevertheless, what we see is what we earlier foresaw. We knew that the peace they achieved that point was for a egocentric curiosity.
“We are able to’t even name that one peace deal. Phrases have been agreed for the curiosity of sure individuals.
“The second Amaewhule criticized the governor, we knew that one thing was already cooking. Once they have been speaking about faculties, they have been simply in search of what they’d use to pin the governor. They already deliberate what they wished to do.
“Everyone seems to be free to play politics however to not the detriment of the Rivers folks”.
They’ve left Fubara behind – Austin Okai
Additionally reacting, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Occasion, PDP, Austin Okai puzzled why the governor was left behind within the PDP regardless of the reconciliation.
Okai, who accused Fubara of going “again to his vomit” claimed that among the governor’s supporters have additionally deserted him.
He mentioned, “Regardless of reconciliation, Wike’s prepare moved to the APC with out carrying him alongside.
“He’s now lonely, people who stood with him additionally deserted him since he went again to his personal vomit”.
