Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday mentioned it stood by the judgment of the Federal Excessive Court docket which barred the disbursement of month-to-month allocations to the state authorities.
A Federal Excessive Court docket in Abuja has barred the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN) from disbursing additional month-to-month allocations to the Rivers State authorities over alleged constitutional violations by Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
In her ruling on Wednesday, Justice Joyce Abdulmalik discovered that Governor Fubara’s presentation of the 2024 price range to a four-member Home of Meeting breached constitutional protocol.
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Addressing journalists in Abuja yesterday, the Rivers State APC chairman, Tony Okocha, supported the judgement of the court docket which he mentioned supposed to right a constitutional anomaly which was uncalled for in a democratic setting.
Okocha additionally cautioned Fubara in opposition to what he described as makes an attempt to disparage harmless individuals, together with President Bola Tinubu, minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike and the judiciary over the judgment.
The Rivers APC chairman additionally described current strikes by some stakeholders and elders within the Niger Delta to intervene within the political disaster of the oil wealthy state as belated, having emboldened the governor to push for the struggle.
He mentioned: “As a political get together, the All Progressives Congress, we stand with and by the judgment of the court docket as a result of it’s what’s going to maintain sway within the civil society, it’s the court docket, not one man morality.
“We’re additionally utilizing this chance to talk in opposition to makes an attempt to disparage harmless individuals specifically; Nyesom Wike, the FCT Minister. In all of the instances in court docket, there are about 32 instances wherein he isn’t a celebration to any. Why convey within the President?
