President Bola Tinubu is currently holding a closed-door meeting with Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, Ogoni leaders from four local government areas in Rivers State and FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.
It was learnt that Wike had arrived at the Presidential Villa around 2:45 pm before the Fubara delegation.
In Fubara’s team were Senators Lee Maeba, Magnus Abe, Olaka Nwogu, Victor Giadom, Kenneth Kobani, Monsignor Pius Kii, Leedom Mitee, Senators Bennett Birabi, Barry Mpigi, Kenneth Kobani, and Prof. B. Fakae, among others.
On the part of the presidency were the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila; Minister of Information and National Orientation, Idris Mohammed; Minister of Regional Development, Abubakar Momoh; Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas; and the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari.
As at press time, the official agenda for the meeting was not disclosed to the public, it is however, learnt that the meeting would discuss the Ogoni clean-up project and the potential resumption of oil exploration in Ogoniland, Rivers State.
It is also envisaged that Tinubu would broker another peace to end the festering political feud between Fubara and Wike.
Tit would be recalled that the Federal Government has expressed worry over the long suspension of oil exploration in Rivers State.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Samuel Ogbuku, has also lamented that the Fubara-Wike conflict has halted oil exploration and exploitation by international oil companies in Ogoniland.
According to Ogbuku, the feud and energy crisis following the removal of oil subsidies by the Federal Government, was undermining the nation’s Gross Domestic Product over the years.
