Pro-Wike lawmakers condemn Fubara’s 2025 budget presentation to three people

The pro-Nyesom Wike Rivers State House of Assembly members, led by Martin Amaewhule, have strongly condemned the state’s Governor, Siminialayi Fubara’s presentation of the 2025 Appropriation Bill to three members of the House, led by Victor Oko-Jumbo.

The action, according to the lawmakers, is a blatant disregard for judicial pronouncements and the rule of law.

During its 88th Legislative Sitting on Tuesday, the House expressed its outrage over Fubara’s recalcitrant and lawless posture.

The Deputy Speaker, Dumle Maol, who is also the Chairman of the House Committee on Judiciary, presented a recent Court of Appeal judgment that reaffirmed the legitimacy of the Rivers State House of Assembly led by Amaewhule.

In a statement by Martins Wachukwu, the Media Aide to the Speaker, Maol criticized Governor Fubara’s scornful disposition towards the Court of Appeal judgment, which the Governor himself had filed.

The governor’s actions, according to Maol, demonstrated impunity and utter disregard for the judiciary.

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Members who commented condemned the act of Fubara, stating that despite several judgments of the Court of Appeal affirming the legitimacy of the Amaewhule-led Assembly, Fubara still went astray.

Speaking in support of the comments of members, the Speaker, Amaewhule, stated that in the recent Court of Appeal judgment, the appellants, including the Governor, lost on all grounds of appeal, except on the withholding of federal allocation to the State.

“The issue of speakership and membership of the Rivers State House of Assembly is a decided matter by the Court of Appeal at different times, and in all, the court stated emphatically that there has been no other Assembly known to law than the Assembly led by me,” Amaewhule insisted.

The Speaker averred that, regrettably, Governor Fubara now sees himself as one who is above the Constitution of the country and the judgments of courts, adding that such recklessness is an invitation to self-help and anarchy.

Maintaining that such malfeasance and unbridled actions of the Governor would bow to the provisions of the law, as the House believes in the Constitution, Laws, and Judiciary of the country.