Rivers: Pro-Wike Lawmakers Move to Stop Fubara from Spending State Fund

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt

Members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, loyal to Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, have written to Governor Siminalaye Fubara, and threatened to shut down further expenditure from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the state.

The resolution was reached yesterday at a plenary led by factional Speaker, Martin Amaewhule.

House Leader, Major Jack, had during the sitting drawn the attention of the Assembly to the combined provisions of Sections 121 and 122 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Jack alleged, “Governor Fubara has flagrantly continued to violate the constitution by spending from the consolidated Revenue Fund of the state without an appropriation law.”

Debating the statement, the lawmakers condemned the governor’s alleged “wanton disregard” for the constitution, “despite repeated reminders of the consequences of his actions”.

They expressed their support for a shutdown of expenditure from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the state forthwith.

Amaewhule, in his reaction, stated, “It is unfortunate that Governor Fubara now sees violation of the provisions of the constitution and judgements of courts as a way of governance.”

He added that as representatives of the people, “The house would not look the other way while the governor consistently trample on the constitution he swore to uphold.”

The lawmakers, therefore, resolved to write to the governor, intimating him of the shutdown of all expenditures from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the state.