Nigeria’s Opposition Coalition lawmakers have said that the purported declaration of the seats of the Rivers State Assembly vacant by Pro-Wike lawmakers and request for Governor Siminalayi Fubara to represent the budget are dead on arrival.
The Spokesperson of the coalition, Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, said in a statement that there will be no re-presentation of the Rivers State budget by Governor Fubara before sacked lawmakers who are unknown to the 1999 constitution.
According to him, the sacked lawmakers who are loyal to FCT Minister Nyesom Wike lack constitutional legitimacy to declare the seats of Rivers lawmakers led by Oko Jumbo vacant, including the illegal request for budget representation of an already implemented budget.
Ugochinyere said, “When people ask me to react to the declaration of the lawmakers or the Rivers State House of Assembly sacked Pro-Wike Lawmakers vacant, I say, Why must I react to every issue? That action is the height of political stupidity; these are people whose constitution has declared their seats vacant; it’s automatic. You left a party on which you were elected because your Godfather wants you to decamp so that you can attempt to impeach Governor Fubara.
“Now that you’re lost in the middle of the Atlantic, you want to run back again and say you didn’t decamp? When you made an affidavit, oath that’s on record, live transmission of your cross-carpeting, etc. Then suddenly, because you think Nigeria is a country where all sorts of Iniquity can happen, you’re running from one court to another so you can be declared a lawmaker when you’re not a lawmaker. That issue has been resolved as far as I’m concerned.
“Oko Jumbo remains speaker; Governor Fubara is not going to represent any budget, the budget he has finished implementing. Budget implementation is at 80 per cent now; he should come and tell you people the achievements he has recorded. Represent a budget to people who are not lawmakers?
“Before those whose seats have been declared vacant by the constitution? I’m bored replying some of these noise coming from them.”
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