The elders including a former Governor, Chief Rufus Ada-George, and former Deputy Governor, Gabriel Toby, They stated this in a communiqué read to newsmen after an emergency meeting on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, the state capital, expressed worry that the intervention may have worsened the crisis in the state.
The elders noted that though they had previously called on the President to intervene in the feud between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike and the state Governor, Siminialayi Fubara, they are at a loss as to whether his ‘intervention has solved the problem or escalated it’.
