The directive from the 27 Pro Wike former lawmakers stopping Governor Sim Fubara of Rivers State from spending funds from the consolidate revenue of the state, has been described unenforceable order from impostors. The resolution of the 27 sacked lawmakers has also been described as a foolish joke taken too far by a group of impostors, who are struggling for political bread and butter......Read The Full Article>>.....Read The Full Article>>
Advising the Rivers state Fubara to continue to ignore such orders, the Action Peoples Party (APP) said that the governor does not need to take orders from a group of former lawmakers, whose sack order is still valid .
APP, in a statement in Abuja by its National Deputy Publicity Secretary, Emeka Uwazurike, dismissed the said resolution as another legislative rascality by ex-lawmakers whose seats have long been declared vacant by a court of competent jurisdiction.
The party noted with emphasis that the said N800 billion budget for 2024 fiscal year for which the sacked lawmakers had ordered the governor to represent, was duly passed by the then constitutionally recognised Edison Ehie-led Rivers state House of Assembly and representing the budget, which is already an Act of the state Assembly, would amount to gross constitutional breach and disservice to the good people of Rivers state.
Recall that the Rivers State House of Assembly, formerly led by the sacked Martin Amaewhule, has on Monday asked governor Fubara to stop spending funds from the state consolidated funds after the governor had ignored their seven days ultimatum to represent the 2024 budget to the sacked pro Wike lawmakers.
APP, has, however, asked Governor Fubara to ignore the said order, insisting that the governor does not need to take orders from a group of former lawmakers whose sack order is still valid .
APP said: “As far as the order sacking the Martin Amaewhule leg group of former lawmakers has not been vacated, the 27 including their Speaker Martin Amaehule remain sacked and the governor has no business with such group.
“They deserve to be ignored if not, it means that one day a group not known by law can wake up ask the governor not to operate from government House because he did not attend their new yam festival.”
The party described the said resolution as another calculated attempt to distract the governor from doing the good work many can now attest to for the oil rich state .
“We want to urge the governor here to go ahead with the good work he is doing in the state unhindered.
“APP as an opposition party in the land will continue to fight injustice and this is one injustice we as a party will not condone,” the opposition said.
