The Joint National Assembly Ad Hoc Committee to Oversee Emergency Rule in Rivers State will hear testimony from the governor of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retired), and other important officials.
Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, APC, Ekiti Central, the leader of the Senate/Chairman of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee to Oversee Emergency Rule in Rivers State, made this known at the committee’s inaugural meeting in Abuja’s New Senate Wing.
The upper chamber in Abuja made this claim in a statement released on Tuesday.
The Senate reportedly assured Nigerians that it would do everything to ensure that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s “proclamation of emergency rule on March 18” was kept to himself.
In response to the oil-rich state’s ongoing state of emergency established in the oil-rich state since March 2025, President Bola Tinubu wrote to the Senate and the House of Representatives last week asking for the consideration and approval of the $1. 1.4 trillion Appropriation bill.
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President Tinubu stated in the letter read by Senator Godswill Akpabio, the president of the Senate, that the money would be used by the Rivers State’s Emergency Rule Government to fund education, agriculture, free drug access, and other needs when it was approved.
The request, according to President Tinubu, is in line with the constitution’s requirement that any state under the state house of assembly be suspended or unresponsive.
The Senate President, President Godswill Akpabio, appoints an 18-member Committee on Emergency Rule, led by Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, after President Tinubu declared an emergency in Rivers State.
Source: Channels TV
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