{"id":155581,"date":"2025-03-18T22:19:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T21:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/rivers-crisis-reasons-fubara-ignored-tinubu-tonye-cole"},"modified":"2025-04-03T17:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:36:29","slug":"rivers-crisis-reasons-fubara-ignored-tinubu-tonye-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-reasons-fubara-ignored-tinubu-tonye-cole","title":{"rendered":"Rivers crisis: Reasons Fubara ignored Tinubu \u2013 Tonye Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the 2023 Rivers State election, Tonye Cole, has shared his opinion on why Governor Siminalayi Fubara might have ignored President Bola Tinubu, as the President claimed in his broadcast on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>That President Tinubu addressed the nation on Tuesday night, primarily in response to the political crisis in Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>During the address, the former Lagos State governor declared a state of emergency Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing concern over the political turmoil engulfing the oil-rich state, Tinubu stated that he was \u201cgreatly disturbed\u201d and accused Governor Fubara of demolishing the State House of Assembly building.<\/p>\n<p>He added that after evaluating the situation, he had decided to \u201cdeclare a state of emergency from 18 March.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The President had also said: \u201cI have made personal interventions between the contending parties for a peaceful resolution of the crisis, but my efforts have been largely ignored by the parties to the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on this, Cole stated, \u201cI believe both parties have to be punished\u201d if they truly ignored the President.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cBut I don\u2019t think that the President said that\u2014if I heard him right. I may be wrong; I may have to look at it again. But if I heard him correctly, I believe he said that the person or the side that was ignoring him was the governor and his team. That he had spoken to them, and they ignored him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that\u2019s what I heard. If that is the case, then the question would be: what were the conditions that were put forward that then led him to be ignored?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA president is a very powerful force, and if a state governor chooses to ignore a president, then it must mean one of two things. Either the solution presented to the governor was so one-sided that he felt it was unfair and not worth obeying, or he felt that the solution did not address the issue at hand at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, whether to ignore it or go back to address it would be a different issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the 2023 Rivers State election, Tonye Cole, has shared his opinion on why Governor Siminalayi Fubara might have ignored President Bola Tinubu, as the President claimed in his broadcast on Tuesday. That President Tinubu addressed the nation on Tuesday night, primarily in response to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":155580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[10074,254,11720,945,7283],"class_list":["post-155581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-fubara","tag-nigeria","tag-rivers-crisis","tag-tinubu","tag-tonye-cole"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rivers crisis: Reasons Fubara ignored Tinubu \u2013 Tonye Cole - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the 2023 Rivers State election, Tonye Cole, has shared his ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-reasons-fubara-ignored-tinubu-tonye-cole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rivers crisis: Reasons Fubara ignored Tinubu \u2013 Tonye Cole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in the 2023 Rivers State election, Tonye Cole, has shared his ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-reasons-fubara-ignored-tinubu-tonye-cole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-18T21:19:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-03T16:36:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742324053.51213.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-reasons-fubara-ignored-tinubu-tonye-cole#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-reasons-fubara-ignored-tinubu-tonye-cole\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rivers crisis: Reasons Fubara ignored Tinubu \u2013 Tonye Cole\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-18T21:19:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-03T16:36:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-reasons-fubara-ignored-tinubu-tonye-cole\"},\"wordCount\":365,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-reasons-fubara-ignored-tinubu-tonye-cole#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742324053.51213.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Fubara\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rivers crisis\",\"Tinubu\",\"Tonye Cole\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-reasons-fubara-ignored-tinubu-tonye-cole#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-reasons-fubara-ignored-tinubu-tonye-cole\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-reasons-fubara-ignored-tinubu-tonye-cole\",\"name\":\"Rivers crisis: Reasons Fubara ignored Tinubu \u2013 Tonye Cole - 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