A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has asked Governor Siminalayi Fubara to publicly disclose the full terms of the peace agreement brokered by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that preceded the lifting of emergency rule in the state.
Factional caretaker chairman of the Rivers PDP, Dr Nname Ewor, made the call in Port Harcourt on Thursday, arguing that transparency was owed to the people whose mandate the governor exercises.
“The mandate being exercised by the governor belongs to the people of Rivers State. It is therefore important that all agreements entered into on behalf of the state, especially those brokered by Mr President, are fully disclosed,” Ewor said.
He referenced the deep political rift that erupted less than a year into Fubara’s tenure, pitting the governor against members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and his predecessor, now Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. The crisis escalated into violence and institutional paralysis, prompting President Tinubu to declare a state of emergency in March 2025, suspend the governor and lawmakers for six months, and appoint retired naval chief Ibok Ekwe Ibas as sole administrator.
Tinubu later convened rival Rivers factions in Abuja, where a political truce was reached as part of conditions for lifting emergency rule and restoring democratic structures in September 2025. Details of that accord, and any subsequent understandings reached during the emergency period, have never been fully made public.
Ewor said that lack of clarity has fuelled speculation, especially after Governor Fubara defected from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in December 2025, a move that reshaped alignments in Rivers politics and within the South-South zone.
On internal PDP matters, Ewor confirmed that Rivers delegates took part in the party’s national convention held in Ibadan in November 2025, where the existing state executive was dissolved. A caretaker committee, which he chairs, was subsequently inaugurated by the National Working Committee in December and will remain in place pending court rulings on challenges to the convention’s outcome, he said.
While stressing that choices about future elections and party platforms are ultimately for the governor and his allies, Ewor insisted Rivers residents “have a right to know” what commitments were made in their name regarding governance, peace and stability.
He concluded by aligning himself with the political stance of FCT Minister Wike and openly endorsing President Tinubu’s anticipated bid for re-election in 2027, citing the president’s role in “restoring stability” to Rivers State.
