Nigeria, May 7 -- Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State on Monday declared that there is no House of Assembly in the state, a statement that suggest the collapse of the peace deal brokered by President Bola Tinubu.

"Let me say it here, those group of men who claim that they are assembly members, they are not existing. I want it to be on record," Mr Fubara told a visiting delegation from Bayelsa State led by former Governor Seriake Dickson.

The delegation, which included political and traditional rulers from Bayelsa State, paid Governor Fubara a courtesy visit at Government House, Port Harcourt.

This is contained in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES by Chukwudi Nelson, the spokesperson to Governor Fubara.

The oil-rich Bayelsa Stat...