• Meeting to confirm Egbetokun as IGP
From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja
Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, met Tuesday at the Presidential Villa.
Both men (who incidentally wore white kaftan) are attending the police council meeting, which consists of 36 governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory. They were seen outside the Council Chambers of the State House, shaking hands.
Some of the governors, including Wike and the National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu, were sighted as they engaged in an aside discussion while others engaged in exchanging of banters.
In the ensuing development, Wike later proceeded to shake hands and briefly exchange pleasantries with Fubara after he had disengaged from the NSA. However, the security personnel present throughout the men’s small talk prevented media from taking any still or moving images of the event.
Fubara and Wike are meeting for the first time after the crisis that rocked Rivers State, where moves by 24 members of the State House of Assembly to impeach Fubara resulted in turbulence in the state on Monday. The plot was foiled by the governor’s loyalists who stormed the assembly complex in protest against the move.
The leader of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Edwin Clark, had accused Wike of being behind the plot to unlawfully remove the Fubara, urging President Bola Tinubu to step in and call the FCT minister to order.
The Police Council is meeting to confirm the appointment of the Kayode Egbetokun as substantive Inspector-General of Police. The last time the Nigeria Police Council met was on June 4, 2021 when President Muhammadu Buhari presided over the meeting of the council at the State House.
Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) as members.
Some of the state governors sighted are Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Dapo Abiodun- (Ogun), Ahmadu Fintiri (Adamawa), Bala Mohammed (Bauchi), Abdullahi Abba (Kano), Bassey Ottu (Cross River), among others.