{"id":847281,"date":"2025-05-10T19:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T00:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/rivers-crisis-tinubu-meets-with-fubara-in-london\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T19:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T00:12:29","slug":"rivers-crisis-tinubu-meets-with-fubara-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/rivers-crisis-tinubu-meets-with-fubara-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Crisis: Tinubu meets with Fubara in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div role=\"main\" id=\"content\">\n<article id=\"the-post\">\n<div>\n<figure><img width=\"650\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-14.png\" alt=\"Rivers Crisis: Tinubu meets with Fubara in London 1\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Rivers Crisis: Tinubu meets with Fubara in London 1\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>There were strong indications on Tuesday that President Bola Tinubu met with suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, during the President\u2019s working visit to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>The Africa Report<\/em>, the meeting was initiated by Fubara, but the Presidency has remained tight-lipped, declining to confirm or comment on the encounter despite several inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>An insider described the meeting as significant, marking the first face-to-face discussion between Tinubu and Fubara since the President declared a state of emergency in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>In his March 18 national broadcast, Tinubu cited \u201cmonths of intense political instability\u201d that had crippled governance and threatened national unity as the reason for the emergency declaration and the appointment of Vice Admiral Ibok\u2011Ete Ekwe Ibas (rtd) as the state\u2019s sole administrator.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say the meeting was an attempt to defuse political tensions and seek a path toward restoring functional governance in the oil-rich state. Discussions reportedly included the possibility of Fubara\u2019s reinstatement.<\/p>\n<p>Notably absent from the talks was FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, Fubara\u2019s estranged political mentor, who is said to be uneasy about the meeting\u2019s potential outcomes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Chinenye Ogbonna<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/2025\/04\/23\/rivers-crisis-tinubu-meets-with-fubara-in-london\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were strong indications on Tuesday that President Bola Tinubu met with suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, during the President\u2019s working visit to Europe. According to The Africa Report, the meeting was initiated by Fubara, but the Presidency has remained tight-lipped, declining to confirm or comment on the encounter despite several inquiries. An insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":847282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3824,27524],"tags":[6779,8648],"class_list":{"0":"post-847281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crisis","8":"category-rivers","9":"tag-crisis","10":"tag-rivers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}