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Significance
The dispute centres over Wike’s efforts to retain control of state resources, the legislature and administrative machinery and Fubara’s efforts to assert his independence from his former patron.
Impacts
The crisis could exacerbate ethnic tensions in Rivers State.
Political instability and state-level corruption could make it more difficult to crack down on oil theft.
Wike’s alliance with Tinubu could weaken the longer-term national prospects of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP).
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