"
Tinubu Threatened Governor Fubara To Accept Resolutions On Rivers Crisis, Didn’t Accommodate Opinions During Meeting –Ex-Commissioner, Briggs
A former Commissioner for Water Resources in Rivers State and a member of the Rivers State Elders and Leaders Forum, David Briggs, has said Governor Siminalayi Fubara was subtly threatened to accept the resolutions reached during a presidential intervention meeting to resolve the political crisis in the state.
He said the document Governor Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, signed was not a product of a peaceful agreement.
Briggs, who said he was present during President Tinubu’s intervention in the state’s crisis and witnessed what happened at the meeting with Governor Fubara, Wike and other Rivers stakeholders in attendance, said that President Tinubu merely walked into the meeting room with a resolution.
He said the President subsequently addressed them and said that what he had in his hand was a presidential directive and had subtly threatened that the directive of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should not be undermined.