Former Rivers State sole administrator, Ibok-Ete Ibas, a retired vice admiral, visited the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Wednesday amid rising pressure that he account for his stewardship.
According to a Channel TV report, Ibas arrived at the State House around 5:50 p.m. carrying a stack of files.
He was later joined by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, while the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, was reported to be present at the Villa. 
The visit followed President Bola Tinubu’s September 17 decision to lift emergency rule in the oil-rich state, and reinstate Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Ngozi Odu, and the state House of Assembly members.
Ibas appearance also came just days after the Rivers State House of Assembly voted to investigate how state funds were spent between March and September, when the state of emergency lasted in the state.
Details of the visit had yet to be made public as of the time of publishing this report.
At its first sitting after resuming, the Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule, announced it would probe how state funds were spent under Ibas’s watch.
Part of the House’s resolutions read, “To explore the process of knowing what transpired during the emergency rule with regard to spending from the consolidated revenue fund for the award of contracts and other expenditure.”
This was as civil society organisations, including Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) called for the probe into the financial dealings of the former sole administrator in the state.
The organisation demanded clarity on how he managed over N254.37 billion received from the Federation Account between March and August 2025.
