{"id":193456,"date":"2026-02-04T10:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/rivers-crisis-tinubu-will-always-favor-wike-lawyer-ogwuche"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:57:18","slug":"rivers-crisis-tinubu-will-always-favor-wike-lawyer-ogwuche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-tinubu-will-always-favor-wike-lawyer-ogwuche","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Crisis Tinubu Will Always Favor Wike Lawyer Ogwuche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A legal practitioner, Festus Ogwuche, has said that President Bola Tinubu will always place the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, at an advantage in the ongoing political tension in Rivers state.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview on Arise Television\u2019s \u2018Prime Time\u2019 on Tuesday, Ogwuche, stated that Governor Siminalayi Fubara should have been more calculative when he was defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Fubara lacks understanding of the level of the relationship between president Tinubu and the FCT Minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWike and Tinubu\u2019s relationship goes beyond a godfather-godson relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is deeper into certain undercurrents that we cannot fathom, and the president will always place Wike at an advantage in this crisis,\u201d he said.<\/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. A legal practitioner, Festus Ogwuche, has said that President Bola Tinubu will always place the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, at an advantage in the ongoing political tension in Rivers state. Speaking during an interview on Arise Television\u2019s \u2018Prime Time\u2019 on Tuesday, Ogwuche, stated that Governor Siminalayi Fubara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":193455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-193456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","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>Rivers Crisis Tinubu Will Always Favor Wike Lawyer Ogwuche - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A legal practitioner, Festus Ogwuche, has said that President Bola Tinubu will always place the Minister of the Federal ...\" \/>\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-tinubu-will-always-favor-wike-lawyer-ogwuche\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rivers Crisis Tinubu Will Always Favor Wike Lawyer Ogwuche\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A legal practitioner, Festus Ogwuche, has said that President Bola Tinubu will always place the Minister of the Federal ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-tinubu-will-always-favor-wike-lawyer-ogwuche\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-04T09:48:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-04T10:57:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770202481.070798.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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-tinubu-will-always-favor-wike-lawyer-ogwuche#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-tinubu-will-always-favor-wike-lawyer-ogwuche\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rivers Crisis Tinubu Will Always Favor Wike Lawyer Ogwuche\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-04T09:48:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-04T10:57:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-tinubu-will-always-favor-wike-lawyer-ogwuche\"},\"wordCount\":143,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-tinubu-will-always-favor-wike-lawyer-ogwuche#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770202481.070798.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-tinubu-will-always-favor-wike-lawyer-ogwuche#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-tinubu-will-always-favor-wike-lawyer-ogwuche\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-tinubu-will-always-favor-wike-lawyer-ogwuche\",\"name\":\"Rivers Crisis Tinubu Will Always Favor Wike Lawyer Ogwuche - 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