The Hon Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly on Monday, July 8, 2024, gave Governor Siminalayi Fubara a 7-day deadline to resubmit the 2024 Appropriation Bill for passage.
The lawmakers loyal to the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike gave the directive at its first session after a long vacation that lasted several months.
However, the faction of the House led by Speaker Victor Oko-Jumbo loyal to Governor Fubara is holding a parallel session and expected to come up with a counter directive.
Fubara had earlier presented the 2024 Appropriation Bill to the faction of the House loyal to him, when his present Chief of Staff, Edison Ehie was Speaker.
Ehie and the pro-Fubara lawmakers approved and passed the Appropriation Bill which Governor Fubara signed into law, saying that it aimed to promote economic development, inclusive growth, and address socio-economic inequality in the state.
The Victor Oko-Jumbo-led House loyal to Governor Fubara had on Sunday night in a letter by the Clerk, Dr G. M Gillis-West, invited a new commissioner nominee, Emmanuel Frank-Fubara, to appear before it on Monday for screening and confirmation as a member of the State Executive Council.
While the pro-Fubara lawmakers held their sittings in an improvised Hallowed Chamber in the Government House, Port Harcourt, the pro-Wike legislators sat at the State Assembly official quarters along Aba Road, also in the metropolis.
