Stop calling me your chief – Fubara tells supporters, bows to Wike

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has made a stunning assertion about his political management in Rivers State.

Speaking on the unveiling of the Rainbow Coalition’s candidates in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, Fubara stated people who referred to as him chief in the course of the crises between him and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, ought to cease henceforth.

This was as he declared Wike as the one chief within the state.

“Those that called me my leader during the crises, please stop calling me my leader, we have a common leader now which is His Excellency Chief Nyesom Wike,” Fubara stated.

Recall that the crises within the state led to the declaration of state of emergency by President Bola Tinubu in March 2025 and lasted until September 2025.

Fubara’s assertion comes amid the political realignment in Rivers State forward of the 2027 basic elections.

Fubara and Wike have had a collection of reconciliation conferences in latest instances main as much as the disclosing of Wike’s Rainbow Coalition candidates.

DAILY POST gathered that the disclosing of the coalition’s candidates attracted political stakeholders from the All Progressives Congress, APC; Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Labour Party, LP; Action Alliance, AA; All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA; Allied Peoples Movement, APM, amongst others.