LAGOS — Niger Delta rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, has called on President Bola Tinubu to make public the alleged agreements reached with Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara during the reconciliation between the governor and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.
The peace initiative, brokered by Tinubu in June, ended a protracted political crisis in Rivers State that had lasted nearly two years. Reports suggested that the agreement paved the way for Governor Fubara’s reinstatement following his suspension in March this year, with speculation that he was asked to shelve his second-term ambitions.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Briggs described such secret deals as unacceptable, saying, “When politicians make these agreements over our heads, it’s like shaving the head of someone behind their back.”
She stressed that the people of Rivers State bear the brunt of such political maneuvers, arguing that excluding them from decisions that directly affect their lives is unjust.
“We can’t gauge the extent to which these decisions will affect us; it becomes very difficult to flow with the politicians,” Briggs said. “It’s just an impossible situation where we have found ourselves. We don’t know what the President has insisted on, we don’t know what was agreed upon, and where that leads the people of Rivers State. So, we need to know what was agreed on.”
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