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All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged that there are indications that the rift between the suspended Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike will continue accusing of tactically dodging reconciliation overtures made towards him since State of Emergency was imposed on Rivers State by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on March 18, 2025.

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The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Sir Tony Okocha alleged that claims of reconciliation from the camp of the suspended state governor were false as no effort has been made by Fubara to approach either the suspended members of the state House of Assembly, stakeholders and elders of the community or the leadership of the APC in the state to douse tension.

He told newsmen at the Media Centre of the APC National Secretariat onTuesday in Abuja that even if Fubara joins the APC, he would not be forgiven of his sins except the suspended governor makes genuine efforts to initiate reconciliation with those who were allegedly offended by his actions as governor.

Asked whether the governor has made any effort to join the APC, Okocha accused Fubara and his former commissioners of grandstanding and living on the false hope that the state of emergency will soon be lifted adding that in politics, no one joins a party from the backdoor.

Tony Okocha’s words: “Fubara’s suspension and the declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State has no business whatsoever with politics.

It was about his misdemeanour and I told you once that he said that the president saved his job by declaring the state of emergency.

Don’t forget that the Supreme Court in its judgement said earlier that there was no government in Rivers State. So, if there was no government in Rivers State, something must be done and that which happened was the declaration of the state of emergency.

“If Fubara decides to join the APC, it has nothing to do with the state of emergency in Rivers state. His sins cannot be forgiven just because he joins our party. It is not true. He has not spoken to me.

He will enter the party through the door not the window. Not only him, there are procedures for defection to another party and if he claims to be a politician, he will know that all politics is local, he will try and defect in his ward. From there it will come to us and I have asked my ward chairmen, nobody brought any information about him entering APC.

“It is not possible that you will jump into APC today and your sins will be forgiven, that can’t be true. It won’t work that way. Then, it would have made APC as a dumping ground for people who commit misdemeanor and believe that by and large we will come for reconciliation.”

On whether the party is worried about Fubara meeting the president, Okocha said: “How can we be worried that somebody visited the president. Don’t forget it is also the season for Sallah. Yesterday, I read somewhere, the former Governor Segun Osoba paid Sallah homage and I don’t know whether you saw the President in the company of Chief EN Wike… So, we can’t be worried, we can’t gag the President to say you will see Mr. A, you will not see Mr. B. Perhaps, if I had made an application to see Mr. President, I would have been there with my team.

“I am not a prophet of doom, I can only say to you with the benefit of knowledge that I am not aware of any reconciliation move. No reconciliation is going on. Is reconciliation going to talk to Mr President? But Mr President has said go and make peace, yet no attempt at that. I am not aware of any reconciliation moves by Fubara and his team,”Okicha concluded.