Fubara in emergency meeting with excos after lawmakers’ defection

Siminalayi Fubara, the Rivers State governor has summoned a meeting with the members of the state executive council.
This comes after 27 of the 32-member House of Assembly defected from his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the opposition All Progressives Congress.
The defection followed political crisis in the state, in which the lawmakers made a failed attempt to impeach the governor a few weeks ago.
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According to sources close to the matter, the meeting is underway at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

The defection is the latest installment of intrigue from the lingering political impasse between the governor and former governor Nyesom Wike, who is currently the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.