Fubara Signs ₦1.1tn Rivers 2025 Budget Into Law

Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has signed the ₦1.1 trillion 2025 Budget into law.

Fubara, in a speech after signing the bill into law on Thursday, January 2, 2025, thanked the Victor Oko-Jumbo-led State Assembly for doing a good job.

The governor argued that Oko-Jumbo’s House of Assembly was the only one in the state.

The governor made this assertion while signing the 2025 Appropriation Bill, amounting to ₦1.1 trillion, into law, a week after submitting it to the Oko-Jumbo-led Assembly.

Despite recent attempts to refute their actions, Fubara declared that Martins Amaewhule and 26 other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) defectors who have joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) are no longer recognized as legislators.

The Amaewhule group is devoted to Nyesom Wike, the former governor of the Rivers and the federal capital territory’s minister, who has had a history of hostility toward Fubara.

The governor emphasized that the decision to disqualify them is final and irreversible despite giving them ample time to reconsider their position.

No governor in Nigeria has endured the kind of disrespect he had, he claimed, and he continued to concentrate on moving Rivers State closer to greater success.

Source: Channels TV