{"id":179626,"date":"2025-09-20T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/fubara-acknowledged-why-emergency-rule-was-necessary-apc-chieftain"},"modified":"2025-09-20T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:58:00","slug":"fubara-acknowledged-why-emergency-rule-was-necessary-apc-chieftain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/fubara-acknowledged-why-emergency-rule-was-necessary-apc-chieftain","title":{"rendered":"Fubara acknowledged why emergency rule was necessary \u2013 APC chieftain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Taofiq Raimi, says Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has acknowledged that there was an intense political crisis that led to the declaration of state of emergency in the state for six months.<\/p>\n<p>Raimi made this statement on Friday, while responding to questions in an interview on \u2018Prime Time\u2019, a programme on Arise Television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has put to rest the controversy as to whether there was any crisis at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor identified three principal actors in the crisis- his predecessor and current Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike. He even described him as \u201cour leader\u201d, that\u2019s quite good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also mentioned that he is the crisis himself and the State Assembly. After acknowledging the role played by the actors, he also acknowledged that the president did well as a father to midwife and broker a peaceful resolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe third element in his speech is the fact that he said that peace has returned and they will now focus on the continuation of the democratic rule and the fact that they will continue to seek ways to develop their state,\u201d Raimi said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Taofiq Raimi, says Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has acknowledged that there was an intense political crisis that led to the declaration of state of emergency in the state for six months. Raimi made this statement on Friday, while responding to questions in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":179625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-179626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"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>Fubara acknowledged why emergency rule was necessary \u2013 APC chieftain - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/uncategorized\/fubara-acknowledged-why-emergency-rule-was-necessary-apc-chieftain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fubara acknowledged why emergency rule was necessary \u2013 APC chieftain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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