Rivers: Fubara returns, but he’s a totally diminished ‘governor’

    Olu Fasan | Opinion | Sep 29, 2025    
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Siminalayi Fubara has returned as “governor” of Rivers State, six months after he was magisterially removed from office by President Bola Tinubu, following his declaration of an emergency rule in the state. Fubara returned with his tail between his legs, utterly humiliated. Henceforth, anyone who refers to Fubara as governor must put the word in inverted commas. Why? Well, because, truth be told, he’s not a governor in the true sense of the word. He owes his existence in office not to the people of Rivers State, but to President Tinubu, the National Assembly and Nyesom Wike, the megalomaniac former Rivers State governor, now Tinubu’s self-aggrandising and untouchable minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

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