The two key figures in the ongoing political tension in Rivers State, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike and Governor Siminalayi Fubara, reportedly avoided exchanging greetings when they met with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the Villa on Tuesday.
Both Wike and Governor Fubara were part of an Ogoni delegation that visited the President to discuss the potential resumption of oil production in Ogoniland.
According to Vanguard, a source in the meeting said, “Though both of them posed for a photograph with the President, they did not exchange pleasantries. No hug. No greetings. Everybody went straight for the meeting with the President, and after that, we all left”.
He added that Wike arrived at the Villa from where he went to inspect and commission projects, and “immediately after the group photograph with the President, he went back to his duty post.“As a minister from Rivers, Wike must, as a necessity, be present whenever the President is meeting with a delegation from the state. The meeting was not a platform for the discussion of Rivers’ political crisis. It was strictly a business parley”
