Following a closed-door meeting last Wednesday between President Bola Tinubu and the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok Ibas (retd), at the Presidential Villa, there are strong indications that suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, and the 32-member House of Assembly may be reinstated on September 18, 2025. According to Sunday Vanguard, that during the meeting, President Tinubu directed Ibas to prepare and submit a detailed handover report of his six-month emergency administration before the end of his ongoing 10-day vacation. According to a source familiar with the matter, the handover notes must clearly outline all funds inherited from Fubara’s administration, revenues generated during the six-month emergency rule, their sources, and how they were spent. The report is also expected to specify the projects executed within the period and how resources were allocated. The Wednesday night meeting effectively ended a push by influential figures in the National Assembly to secure a three-month extension for Ibas, which would have kept him in charge until December 2025. Proponents of the extension argued that it would allow Ibas to complete major projects such as the reconstruction of the demolished House of Assembly complex, the ongoing workers’ verification exercise, and the installation of sensitive government equipment. Had this plan succeeded, Fubara and other democratic institutions would have had to wait until January 2026 to resume office. However, with the peace deal now in place—though described as either “fragile or lasting”—the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has strongly opposed any such backdoor extension and insists that emergency rule must end on September 18. It will be recalled that on August 30, after casting his vote in the local government elections, Wike declared that the governor and Assembly members were ready to return to office. Two days later, the state APC chairman, Chief Tony Okocha, reaffirmed that September 18 remained a non-negotiable date. The source further disclosed that Ibas has been instructed to submit his final report to the President “two days before returning from vacation,” adding that Tinubu is expected to announce the lifting of the emergency rule on September 18—the exact day the emergency administration would clock six months. President Tinubu had on March 18, 2025, declared emergency rule in Rivers State to ease political tensions between Wike and Fubara.