The Rivers State House of Assembly’s Martins Amaehwule-led group has rejected the passage of the 2024 budget by the assembly’s four members led by Edison Ehie.
According to Platinum Times, the four-man House of Assembly passed the N800 billion 2024 budget last Thursday, just 24 hours after Governor Similanayi Fubara presented it.
However, speaking at the All Progressives Congress, APC, dedication service and stakeholders meeting in Port Harcourt on Sunday, Amaehwule, who is loyal to former Governor Nyesom Wike, accused Fubara of supervising the demolition of the State House of Assembly edifice without notification.
“As we speak, the governor has gone to demolish the state House of Assembly, an edifice built with taxpayer money. He personally supervised the demolition, not minding that documents and archives belonging to members and staff of the Assembly were inside.
“The governor’s action is against the law. We hear that some four persons gathered and are meeting somewhere. We don’t know what they are doing. Rivers people should know today that the House of Assembly of any state is defined by the Constitution; to reconvene the House, you need to have a quorum, and the quorum is 11.
“We are 27, and they are just four. They are just doing a family meeting. Anything they told you they had done, ignore them; it’s null and void. The law is clear about it,” he stated.