President Bola Tinubu has send to the National Assembly for approval the 2025 for Rivers state.
The president, in a letter he sent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives urged the lawmakers to approve N.481 as this year’s budget for the oil bearing state.
The letter was read on Thursday by the Speaker, Tajudeen Abass.
On February 18, 2015 President Tinubu suspended the democratically elected institutions including the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, his Deputy and members in the state house of Assembly.
The president immediately appointed Ibok Ete Ibaz, a former Chief of lNaval Staff, to oversee the affairs of the oil bearing state.
The suspension had received serious backlash from not a few Nigerians who said the president violated the Constitution. The president had already been dragged to the Supreme Court court over the issue, by some well-meaning indigenes of the state and the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, governor who want the suspension cancelled.
On Wednesday, President Tinubu told the nation’s apex court that his action was in tandem with the law, citing for instance,the approval of both chambers of the National Assembly.
The magazine reported that both the Senate and House of Representatives have set up two committees to oversight the function of the Sole Administrator,Ibok Ete Ibaz, a retired Rear Admiral.
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