Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has enacted the state’s ₦1.1 trillion 2025 budget, ensuring its implementation until December 31, 2025.
The approval follows a week after the Oko-Jumbo-led State Assembly received the proposal.
Fubara declared the Oko-Jumbo Assembly as the sole legitimate legislative body in the state, taking into consideration the legal implication of the defection of Martins Amaewhule and 26 other legislators from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
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Despite their attempts to reverse their decision, Fubara maintained they are no longer recognized as lawmakers.
The defection has fueled tensions between Fubara and former Rivers governor Nyesom Wike, who supports the dissenting legislators.
Despite political challenges, the governor stated his administration’s commitment to advancing the state’s development agenda.
Based on extant laws, a legislator who defects from the party on which platform he/she was elected, into another party, even when the original party is not in any form of serious crisis, that legislator shall lose his/her seat.
