By Sylvester Udemezue
1. First, and without equivocation, there should be NO further attempts to impeach anyone. Such a course of action, in the present circumstances, is both unnecessary and ill-conceived. It would deepen divisions, inflame passions, and distract further from the urgent task of governance, without delivering any tangible benefit to the people of Rivers State.
2. At the same time, Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his Deputy must resist the temptation of triumphalism, bravado, or symbolic victory laps. This is not the season for chest-thumping or political theatre. It is the season for quiet, focused, and results-driven governance, anchored on the delivery of the promises made to the people of Rivers State.
Frankly, many Nigerians are already exhausted by the seemingly endless political crisis in Rivers State. At this point, one is compelled to ask, without malice, but with genuine concern:
*Is Rivers State the only state in Nigeria?*
🚶♀️ Yesterday, it was Rivers State crisis.
🚶♀️Today, it is Rivers State crisis.
🚶♀️Tomorrow, Rivers State crisis.
🚶♀️The next day, still Rivers State crisis.
*Enough is enough!*
The unrelenting cycle of political conflict has become draining, not only for the good people of Rivers State, but for Nigerians across the federation. At a time when the nation is grappling with escalating insecurity, economic hardship, worsening unemployment crisis, rising living costs, education deficits, and healthcare challenges, it is neither reasonable nor sustainable for the political quarrels of one state to repeatedly dominate national attention. Nigeria has too many urgent problems for this level of avoidable distraction.
1. Let Mr. Nyesom Wike focus fully on his responsibilities and achievements in Abuja, where he presently serves the nation and where his energy, experience, and political capital are now best deployed. And he’s doing well at it.
2. Let Governor Fubara, in turn, concentrate wholly on governing Rivers State: on infrastructure development, prompt payment of salaries and pensions, healthcare delivery, education, youth empowerment and reorientation, innovativeness, advancement of science and technology, and economic growth. That, ultimately, is what the people voted for, not endless political brinkmanship.
All parties to this dispute should, by now, recognise that national patience has worn thin. *I would not be surprised if even President Bola Ahmed Tinubu himself is no longer pleased that the crisis has dragged on for so long without a decisive and dignified resolution.*
This intervention is not animated by hostility, nor by partisanship. It is made in the broader interest of Rivers State and the Nigerian nation.
Even those of us who, from the very beginning, have carefully analysed the crisis (its general contours, constitutional dimensions, and legal implications) are frankly tired of revisiting it. The issues have been thoroughly ventilated, exhaustively debated, and endlessly dissected. Very little new is being said; only the same conflicts are being recycled. It is time to draw a line.
Governor Fubara, Chief Wike, and all their supporters and political allies should spare the public further turmoil.
1. Rivers State deserves peace, stability, and purposeful leadership, not perpetual political tension.
2. Nigerians deserve relief from avoidable political drama.
3. And democracy functions best when leaders choose restraint, responsibility, and service over perpetual conflict.
This moment does not call for victory laps or political battles. It calls for pragmatic governance, emotional intelligence, maturity, and true statesmanship. History will not remember who won the quarrel. It will remember who chose peace, and who delivered results.
Long live Nigeria!
Long live Nigeria!
Respectfully,
Sylvester Udemezue (Udems)
08021365545. lawmentorng@gmail.com
(15 January 2026)