The Convention of Professionals within the Peoples Democratic Celebration, CP-PDP, has cautioned the Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice-Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd) to avoid the statutory allocation and all different funds accruable or launched to the State.
The group stated this in a press release made obtainable to DAILY POST after its technique assembly on Friday in Abuja.
Within the assertion signed by Barr. Obinna Nwachukwu, Protem Nationwide Coordinator, CP-PDP, he reminded Ibas that no provision of the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) granted him the facility underneath any circumstance in anyway to acceptable or disburse allocation or any fund accruable to Rivers State.
In accordance with him, “The Convention attracts the eye of Vice-Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd) to the specific provision of Part 120 (3) (4) of the 1999 Structure which supplies that;
“No cash shall be withdrawn from any public fund of the State, aside from the Consolidated Income Fund of the State, until the problem of those moneys has been approved by a regulation of the Home of Meeting of the State.
“No cash shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Income Fund of the State of some other public Fund of the State besides within the method Prescribed by the Home of Meeting”.
He added that “Part 121 (1) of the 1999 Structure is obvious in empowering solely the democratically elected Governor of the State to arrange and lay the State’s income and expenditure estimates earlier than the State Home of Meeting for appropriation and authorization for spending.
“Vice-Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd) ought to word that his appointment by President Tinubu as Sole Administrator of Rivers State even with the endorsement of the Nationwide Meeting, stays unlawful as it’s utterly inconsistent with the provisions of the 1999 Structure, with particular reference to Part 5(2) which supplies that the manager powers of a State shall be vested solely within the democratically elected governor of the State.
“Vice-Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd) is especially referred to Part 1(3) of the 1999 Structure which supplies that ‘if some other regulation is inconsistent with the provisions of this structure, this Structure shall prevail and that different regulation, to the extent of the inconsistency be void’.
“The endorsement of his appointment by the Nationwide Meeting is due to this fact void not being in line with the availability of the 1999 Structure (as amended).”
The CP-PDP stated it was placing the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) on discover relating to any withdrawal and spending of Rivers State public funds by Ibas.
“Our Overseas Affairs specialists might be petitioning worldwide our bodies for acceptable sanctions together with Visa ban for people and the households of people concerned in undermining democracy in Nigeria, significantly in Rivers State.
“CP-PDP once more commends the braveness of the State Governors elected on the platform of the PDP in approaching the Supreme Court docket on the matter of Rivers State within the efforts to protect democracy within the nation,” it additional acknowledged.
