The Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule, has given Governor Siminalayi Fubara a one-week deadline to re-submit the 2024 budget for legislative consideration.
News About Nigeria reports that the ultimatum was issued after the first sitting of the pro-Wike House on Monday.
Meanwhile, a parallel session is being held by the House faction led by Victor Oko-Jumbo.
Fubara had earlier presented the budget to the House loyal to him when his current Chief of Staff, Edison Ehie, presided as Speaker.
Ehie and the other pro-Fubara lawmakers passed the budget estimates, and the governor signed the bill into law.
He stated that it is aimed at promoting economic development, inclusive growth, and addressing socio-economic inequality in the state.
On Sunday night, the Oko-Jumbo-led House, loyal to the State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, had, in a letter by the Clerk, Dr. G. M. Gillis-West, invited a new commissioner-nominee, Emmanuel Frank-Fubara, to appear before it on Monday for screening and confirmation as a member of the State Executive Council.
While the pro-Fubara lawmakers hold their sitting in an improvised Hallowed Chamber in the Government House, Port Harcourt, the pro-Wike legislators sit at the State Assembly official quarters along Aba Road, also in the metropolis.
Their sittings follow the bombing of the State House of Assembly Complex located along Moscow Road, Port Harcourt, in October 2023.
There was also an attempt by the 27 lawmakers loyal to the FCT Minister to impeach Fubara.
Later, during plenary, the pro-Wike lawmakers announced their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress as the political crisis in the state deepened following the feud between Fubara and Wike.
