After a lull, a fresh dimension is creeping into the Rivers State political impasse. The war of words, especially on social media and radio stations, and the chaotic atmosphere being created by supporters of the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and the suspended governor, Siminalayi Fubara, is apparently waning.

Checks by The Guardian showed that supporters of both camps are now posting peaceful content and emphasising the need to give peace a chance.

This is coming barely 11 days after Fubara urged his supporters to tone down, and also, Wike’s recent comment that the suspended governor remains “his boy and son”.

Wike, in the interview, admitted that he was not fighting Fubara, but instead, those around him who plan to “reap where they did not sow.”

Findings showed that both Wike and Fubara have been meeting behind closed doors recently.

Stakeholders in the state, especially some supporters of Fubara, have condemned the conditions itemised by the former Chairman of Emohua Local Government, Chidi Lloyd, for proper reconciliation.

In an interview in Port Harcourt, Lloyd had listed conditions for reconciliation including a public apology to the former Chairman of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers, Sergeant Awuse, members of the State House of Assembly, former local government chairmen, among others. He said there can be no meaningful reconciliation in Rivers State without justice.

But a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Chizi Enyi, criticised the former Emohua Local Council boss for issuing the conditions.