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How Wike, Fubara Snubbed One Another At Meeting With Tinubu

By Mani Onyero

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Untold details of how the two leading political combatants in Rivers State, Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike snubbed one another at the stakeholders’ meeting conveyed by President Bola Tinubu on resuming oil production in Ogoni land have emerged.

A Vanguard report revealed that Fubara and Wike were present at the meeting but did not greet one another despite snapping pictures with President Tinubu

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 said 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”.

On whether the President discussed possible reconciliation between the two men, the source said there was no such opportunity. “The President only engaged Magnus (Abe). He told Magnus that he had not been seeing him for some time and Magnus replied that he had been around with the FCT Minister. At that point, Wike confirmed that Magnus had been working with him”, he said.

Recall that only last Monday, hours to the meeting with President Tinubu that Wike reiterated in a live television interview that he would never reconcile with Governor Fubara as long as the crisis continued.

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