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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A political analyst, Mahmud Jega, says the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the political crisis between Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, will rather perpetuate the matter instead of solving it.<\/p>\n

Jega said this on Tuesday during an interview on Arise Television monitored.<\/p>\n

According to him: \u201cAs far as I can see, president Tinubu\u2019s intervention will perpetuate the crisis, instead of resolving it.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo say that Wike is the undisputed political leader in Rivers, contradicts the APC constitution, as initiated recently by the party\u2019s National Secretary and the National Chairman that governors are the leaders of the party in their states.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, you are saying that Wike is the leader when he is not even a member of the APC. That says a lot because even the National Secretary was saying that Wike, if you want, you can come into our party, otherwise you shouldn\u2019t meddle.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the President seems to be saying, if this report is correct, that Wike\u2019s remaining in the PDP, and what he\u2019s doing there really has my blessing, because he is there essentially to wreck the PDP as an opposition party in the service of the President\u2019s 2027 re-election hopes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, honestly, this does not look like an attempt to solve the problem. Instead, it is to hand over the knife and everything to Minister Wike to continue the role that he is playing as leader of Rivers politics in both APC and PDP. This has never happened in the political history of Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. A political analyst, Mahmud Jega, says the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the political crisis between Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, will rather perpetuate the matter instead of solving it. Jega said this on Tuesday during an interview on Arise Television monitored. 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