APC URGES GOVERNOR FUBARA TO SUBMIT HIMSELF TO THE DICTATES OF THE CONSTITUTION 10-05-24
By Sadiq Aminu The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress APC Mr Felix Morka, says Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara is conducting the business of government in Rivers State in total contempt of the state legislature.
Mr Morka made the remark while addressing a press conference at the APC National headquarters in Abuja, on the political crisis in Rivers State between the governor and 27 State lawmakers loyal to the former governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike.
According to him, the Governor expends the state’s resources without regard to appropriation and public procurement laws.
“The Governor has unlawfully withheld local governments funds as a punitive measure against perceived opponents, and only recently, directed that all heads and officials of the 23 Local Government Areas should ignore the summons of the State Assembly as he threatened to sack officials who flouted his directive.
“We strongly counsel Governor Fubara to submit himself to the dictates of the Constitution and the rule of law. In any and all contests between Governor Fubara and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Constitution shall prevail, always. The good people of Rivers state deserve so much more than the seemingly unending chicanery of Governor Fubara.”
Responding to the call on the Rivers State House of Assembly to impeach Govenor Siminalayi Fubara, Morka said if the governor’s declaration that the House of Assembly is nonexistent is based on the fact that the 27 members who decamped from PDP to APC have lost their seats, then Governor Fubara is surely misled.
He argued that the 27 Assembly members did not lose their membership of the Assembly by virtue of their decampment, stressing that there was nothing homeostatic about Section 109(1)(g) of the Constitution.
Morka noted that the governor’s attack on the House of Assembly and its leadership was in flagrant disrespect of the order of a court of law and a violent violation of the express provisions of the Constitution.
The APC publicity secretary observed that the House of Assembly is a creation of the Constitution, and vested with the legislative authority of the state, saying the members of the Assembly were elected by the good people of Rivers state in the same manner that Fubara was elected governor.