Tinubu’s Secret Villa Summit Shakes Rivers — Fubara Faces Political Execution
By Passman Akpos
In what many are already describing as a political ambush in broad daylight, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday dragged Rivers State’s embattled Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, into a classified session at the Presidential Villa, Abuja — a meeting shrouded in silence, sealed doors, and roaring speculation.
Eyewitnesses say Fubara landed at the Villa at exactly 5:01 pm, ushered in by the Presidential Protocol Liaison Officer, only to disappear into a closed-door conversation with the President — a session wrapped in secrecy, guarded like a nuclear code, and ending 44 minutes later at 5:45 pm. No statements. No leaks. Not even a whisper.
But the plot thickened.
Just before Fubara arrived, Ebonyi State Governor Francis Nwifuru had held his own hush-hush meeting with Tinubu. Officially, the agenda was “regional infrastructural priorities.” Unofficially, Villa insiders claim it was nothing short of a political chessboard review — with Rivers State as the centerpiece of the storm.
A FUBARA UNDER FIRE
The timing of the meeting could not have been more explosive.
Fubara walked into Aso Rock with the weight of a political hurricane on his head after 17 lawmakers loyal to Nyesom Wike brazenly defected from the PDP to the APC — led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule. The defection didn’t just shake the table; it flipped it upside down.
The result?
A PDP caucus reduced to a pitiful three members, leaving Fubara politically stranded and surrounded.
WHAT WAS DISCUSSED?
The Villa may be silent, but the streets are not.
Tinubu reportedly demanded stability in Rivers — but at what cost?Did Fubara negotiate survival or surrender?Is the APC tightening a grip on Rivers through the backdoor?
Political analysts are already predicting a landmark shift in power, with whispers suggesting Tinubu could be brokering a deal that rewrites the Rivers political map — to Wike’s advantage.
One thing is clear: the game has started, the battleground has shifted to Aso Rock, and whatever transpired behind those locked doors is certain to send shockwaves through both the PDP and APC camps.
Rivers politics will not be the same again.
