More resignations have hit the Rivers State Executive Council as two more commissioners believed to be loyal to Nyesom Wike tow same path. After four resignations from Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s cabinet on yesterday, the Commissioners for Housing, Gift Worlu and Commissioner for Education, Chinedu Mmom, resigned on Friday. In his resignation letter addressed to the … [Read more…]
The political tsunami sweeping Rivers State appears unabating as three more commissioners on Thursday resigned from Governor Sim Fubara’s cabinet. The latest to pull out of the cabinet are the Commissioner for Works George-Kelly Alabo – who served in the same capacity under Nyesom Wike’s government – and the Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Commissioner Inime … [Read more…]
Following the ongoing demolition of the burnt Rivers State House of Assembly complex to pave way for reconstruction of a new building, the Rt. Hon. Martins Amaewhule-led group of lawmakers have relocated their sitting to the Legislators’ Quarters in Port Harcourt. This is coming barely 24 hours after their seats were declared vacant by Speaker … [Read more…]
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Thursday, signed into law, the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N800bn a day after he presented the budget estimates to the State House of Assembly led by Edison Ehie. Ehie and his loyalists subsequently approved the bill and the governor assented to it on Thursday. The signing ceremony was held … [Read more…]
Professor Zacchaeus Adangor has resigned as the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of Rivers State. In his resignation letter dated December 14, 2023, Adangor told Governor Similanayi Fubara that he opted out of the cabinet on personal principle. Adangor, who served in the immediate past administration of Nyesom Wike, Fubara’s predecessor, thanked the governor for … [Read more…]
…Insists Defected Rivers Lawmakers Automatically Vacated their Seats The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) demands that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should immediately commence the process of conducting fresh elections into the 27 State Constituencies in Rivers State which have become vacant by reason of the defection of the 27 former State lawmakers in the … [Read more…]
The Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, is currently meeting with the members of the state executive council at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital. The emergency meeting followed the defection of 27 members of the 32-member House of Assembly from the governing Peoples Democratic Party to the opposition All Progressives Congress. … [Read more…]
The ongoing political drama in Rivers State has taken a very interesting turn as 27 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). A member of the Assembly, Enemi George, confirmed to Channels Television that the 27 lawmakers were under the … [Read more…]
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed the application by the Ondo State House of Assembly Speaker, Olamide Oladiji and other lawmakers seeking the impeachment of the state’s Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa. The panel of justices at the Court of Appeal dismissed the application on Thursday after the lawmakers withdrew same citing “interest of … [Read more…]
The Labour Party (LP) candidate in the recently concluded governorship election in Imo State, Sen Athan Achonu, has said that he will get justice in court. According to Achonu, he has utmost confidence in the judiciary to do justice and right the wrongs done to the people of Imo State during the November 11, 2023 … [Read more…]
An Appeal Court sitting in Lagos State on Tuesday dismissed the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Patrick Tonye-Cole, against Governor Siminalayi Fubara of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The APC candidate, who was present in the courtroom on … [Read more…]
There was widespread jubilation over the weekend in Igbo Etiti West in Enugu State as the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos set aside the judgement of the Enugu State Election Petition Tribunal which had nullified the election of Williams Amuka of the Labour Party. In a unanimous judgement delivered and presided over by Hon. … [Read more…]