The caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tony Okocha has said President Bola Tinubu’s move to end the rift between the state governor, Sim Fubara and the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has collapsed as the situation worsens.

President Tinubu recently held a meeting with Wike and Fubara at the presidential villa in Abuja, to broker peace between the two politicians in the state.

But in the last four days, the crisis has evolved with the defection of 27 members of the assembly loyal to Wike, to the APC and the demolition of the state House of Assembly Complex.

Addressing a press conference at the APC national secretariat in Abuja, Okocha said the situation is now irreparable.

He also said the four members of the state House of Assembly led by the factional Speaker, Edison Ehie, who sat and passed the budget presented to them by Governor Fubara for the 2024 fiscal year were dwelling on illegality, saying their action would not stand.

Okocha said the APC was wooing Wike to defect to the party, stressing that as soon as he becomes a member of the APC, he would become the party’s leader in the state.