Governor Similaya Fubara of Rivers States has been given 48 hours to present the 2025 budget to the State House of Assembly.
The lawmakers gave the order during their plenary in Port Harcourt on Monday.
Governor Fubara had on January 2, signed the ₦1.1 trillion 2025 Budget into law after presenting it to legislators led by Victor Oko-Jumbo.
The Supreme Court last week reinstated Martin Amaewhule as speaker and his 27 other loyalists thus ending the leadership crisis that had split the house.
They are sitting for the time after the judgement, where they asked the governor to present the budget, which he had named the “Budget of Inclusive Growth and Development.”
The apex court also ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to stop further allocations to Rivers State for disobeying court orders; it also nullified the local government elections conducted in the state last year.
In response, Fubara has ordered the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission to conduct fresh local government elections.
“Furthermore, given the outlawing of caretaker arrangements in the local government system, I hereby direct the Heads of Local Government Administration to immediately take over the administration of the 23 local government councils pending the conduct of fresh elections by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission,” the governor said in a state broadcast on Sunday.
He also instructed the “outgoing local government chairmen to formally hand over the levers of power to the Heads of Local Government Administration by Monday, 3rd March 2025.”
