A former Speaker of the Rivers State Home of Meeting, Ikuinyi-Owaji Ibani, has faulted Governor Siminalayi Fubara for not notifying the Home of his finances presentation go to, a declare the governor had denied.
The previous Speaker was a visitor on Channels Tv’s Dawn Every day breakfast programme on Thursday.
Ibani, who referenced his eight-year tenure as Speaker, mentioned then-governor Nyesom Wike knowledgeable him behind the scenes of his deliberate visits to the Meeting earlier than he confirmed up.
The professional-Wike ex-lawmaker mentioned, “I operated as Speaker from 2015 to 2023. When Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was governor, I knowledgeable him to have a look at the state of the Meeting Quarters.
“He needed to write to me; he needed to name me that he could be visiting the Quarters of Rivers State Home of Meeting.
“I then put the members on discover that the governor of Rivers State was coming. He couldn’t have pushed down there to examine figuring out that it’s a completely different establishment headed by a unique official of presidency.”
There appears to be no finish in sight within the protracted feud between the Wike-backed Home of Meeting and Fubara because the governor was denied entry to the Meeting Quarters on Wednesday when he confirmed as much as re-present the 2025 Finances of the state, as mandated by the Home after the Supreme Courtroom verdict of February 28, 2025.
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The governor mentioned he communicated his go to to Speaker Martins Amaewhule however the Meeting mentioned it acquired no correspondence to the impact.
Ibani mentioned what transpired on Wednesday between the Amaewhule-led Meeting was not unconnected to the frosty relationship between Fubara and Wike since 2023.
Ibani mentioned, “What occurred yesterday (Wednesday), no person ought to deal with it in isolation; it needs to be taken holistically. It didn’t simply occur as a result of it was to occur yesterday, it began from someplace.
“If you end up elected right into a place of belief and authority, your private curiosity ought to take the background whereas the curiosity of the folks ought to take the foreground.
“You don’t know the legislative calendar of the legislature. A governor or a president can not simply stroll to the meeting to current a finances.
“The method that may result in that’s the alternate that goes on behind the scenes to make sure that the governor comes and the finances is introduced within the curiosity of the folks.”
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