‘Wike And I Are Working Together,’ Fubara Assures Tinubu

President Tinubu received Fubara at the State House on Monday, September 22, 2025.

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State on Monday restated that political stability has fully returned to the state.

He stated this in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after visiting President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa Abuja.

Fubara, who was reinstated by the President five days ago after completing a six month suspension from office, said the crisis that rocked Rivers had been settled.

He also said he was now in a good relationship with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.

“I don’t know what you mean by if this is a paper peace. As far as I’m concerned, we have made peace. Fubara and his principal are working together,” he said when asked whether the peace was real or not.

Fubara thanked President Bola Tinubu for his role in ensuring that Rivers State enjoys peace and development.

He said he was at the Villa to appreciate the President, whom he also described as a father, and “tell him that I’m back”.

“You’re aware that suspension was lifted [at] midnight [on September] 17, and I came in on the 19th. Ideally, it’s proper for me to see Mr. President and to tell him that I’m back, and I’ve also resumed my responsibility as the Governor of the Rivers State.

“It’s not much. It’s father-son discussion, telling him thank you and and the areas where, if at all, there should be any issue for him to guide me properly so we don’t be in any situation of crisis. That’s all,” said Fubara..

Months after he was inaugurated as governor in May 2023, Fubara fell out with Wike, over the political control of the state.