Wike vs Fubara: 2 pro-Fubara federal lawmakers stage massive march in Rivers

The Rivers state political crisis has deepened as two House of Representatives members staged a solidarity march supporting Governor Siminalayi Fubara on Friday, December 15.

According to The Punch, Awaji-Inombek Abiante and Boma Goodhead led the members of the Ijaw Youths Council on a march to the Rivers state government house to show their public support for the people of the state.

Abiante and Goodhead are representing the people of Andoni/Opobo/Nkiru and Asari-Toru/Akuku-Toru federal constituencies in the House of Representatives.

The federal lawmakers started the march with the Ijaw Youths Council from the UTC Junction on the Azikiwe Road down to the government house and stopped at the state house of assembly at Moscow Road in Port Harcourt, the state capital, where the youths were addressed.

This is coming in the heat of the political crisis rocking the state since the face-off between Governor Fubara and the former governor, Nyesom Wike.

No fewer than eight commissioners have resigned from their appointments from Fubara's cabinet, and many of them cited personal reasons for their actions.

27 of the 32 lawmakers loyal to Wike dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). A development was followed by the aggrieved governor's demolition of the state house of assembly.