Popular Nigerian businessman, Isaac Fayose has alleged that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike was asked by the presidency to stop troubling the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara.

Reports indicate that President Bola Tinubu on Sunday night, met with Wike, Fubara and some stakeholders in Rivers to end the protracted political crisis in the state.

But the details of the meeting has remained sketchy as both parties kept mum on the outcome.

However, Fayose, in a video posted on his Facebook page on Tuesday morning, alleged that Wike was told that Fubara remains the leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.

“I learnt that presidency has warned Wike to leave Fubara alone. I told you people that Fubara is not going anywhere.

“They told Wike that Fubara is the leader of their party in Rivers State and that he should carry him along or else he may lose his job.

“Those who know Wike should warn him very well, I don’t want to visit him in Kuje prison like Emefiele”, Fayose claimed.

Nigeria’s First Lady, Remi Tinubu, has stated that the country is open to expanding military and security collaborations with the United States to combat terrorist groups and bandits in Northern Nigeria.

She described the U.S. strikes carried out on Christmas Day as a blessing for Nigeria and expressed hope for further collaboration between the two nations.

During a visit to the United States, Mrs. Tinubu spoke about the airstrikes, which targeted terrorist locations in Sokoto.

She also attended the National Prayer Breakfast with former U.S. President Donald Trump, who had directed the strikes.

Mrs. Tinubu said the actions brought relief to Nigeria as the country continues to face attacks that have claimed the lives of many, noting that the government is dealing with the issues.

“The intervention of the U.S. was quite a welcome development.

“Nigeria is looking forward to collaboration” with the U.S. on security issues. “We are expecting that there will be more,” Tinubu told Fox News Digital during a week-long visit to Washington, D.C.

The Christmas Day strikes marked the first direct military action by the U.S. in Nigeria.

President Trump had previously warned that airstrikes would continue if terrorists did not halt attacks on Christians.

He described the operations as a gift to the country and reiterated that the United States would not allow extremist groups to thrive under his leadership.

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APC Chieftain, Abiodun Ajiboye, says Nigeria is not ready for real time transmission of election result due to poor infrastructure.

Ajiboye said this while speaking on Arise TV on Monday, February 9. In his words

“Transmitting election results electronically is the function of manner of voting. If you vote manually, and you collate results, how do you then transmit electronically real-time? It’s just not possible. We can’t even afford it. Even if we wish to, we can’t afford it,

Do the telecom operators have that capability? Do we have enough electricity to undertake that responsibility in Nigeria?

Is the infrastructure of telecom companies sufficient enough to undertake such exercise?

The last election we had, the INEC server was attacked over a million times.

So what they’re saying is that we should put the electoral process within the vulnerability of hijackers, causing a lot of confusion. This is what I see them pushing.”

He noted that manual processes remain central to elections.

“There are manual parts of election. And what can happen, like it has always happened, is you vote, and they count the votes there, the party agents append their signatures on the paper, the paper can then be scanned and transmitted anyhow you want,” he noted.

Ajiboye insisted that Nigeria is not yet capable of electronic voting or real-time result transmission:

“A man is only able to do what he is capable of. We have no capability to do electronic voting or real-time transmission at this time.

America does not even do real-time transmission. Go and check. We don’t even have telecom provided for some rural communities. Some rural communities don’t even have electricity. You’re trying to disenfranchise a lot of people by pushing for what is not possible. Technologically, it is not possible. Stop stampeding the Senate and National Assembly into getting into something very difficult, that will put everybody in a mess at the end of the day.”