The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Friday, returned to the state, touching down at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa, amid excitement from his teeming supporters.

Fubara’s aircraft landed at about midday, with jubilant chants erupting from the crowd of loyalists who had gathered at the airport hours earlier to welcome him back following President Bola Tinubu’s suspension of the emergency rule in Rivers State.

On the ground to receive the governor were several of his supporters, including a former Commissioner for Information and Communications, Barr. Emma Okah, former Commissioner for Health, Dr Adaeze Oreh, former Nigerian Ambassador to the Netherlands, Oji Ngofa, former Commissioner for Environment, Sydney Gbara, and former factional Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Victor Oko-Jumbo.

Others present were former Commissioner for Youths, Chisom Gbali; former Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Evans Bipi; former President of NUPENG, Igwe Achese; former Commissioner for Education, Dr. Tamunosisi Gogo-Jaja; as well as former council chairmen of Port Harcourt City, Ezebunwo Ichemati, and Obio/Akpor, among others.

President Tinubu had on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, announced the suspension of the six-month emergency rule declared in the state at the height of the political crisis between Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.

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