Fubara Says He Allows Rivers State House of Assembly to Continue Functioning Because Of Tinubu

Governor Simi Fubara of Rivers state has said the state House of Assembly has ceased to exist.

The Governor said he was only recognizing it, because it was no longer a legal body.

Fubara state this on Monday, while receiving a delegation of political leaders and traditional rulers from Bayelsa state, who visited him at the Rivers state government house in Port Harcourt.

The Governor said he was still allowing the State House of Assembly to function, because of the peace accord brokered by President Tinubu to contain the political crisis in the state.

According to the governor, members of the assembly used to come to his house before he became governor to eat, and he used to pay the school fees of their children.

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The assembly members are loyal to his immediate predecessor, Nyesom Wike, who is at loggerhead with him over the control of the state PDP structure.

Justifying his position, the governor told the lawmakers that the state government was now focusing on governance and had on Friday flagged off a N4 billion loan scheme to Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the state.

Governance is about touching the core needs of those we are leading, and by the special grace of God, we are doing it.

Yesterday, by the special grace of God, we observed the credit line of over 3,066 persons empowered. You can imagine what that will do for the economy of the masses and the State.

That is touching the lives of our people. It is not supporting them for selfish reasons. It is not giving contracts because I want somebody to fight somebody in my community. No. This is empowering the economy of the masses and the State.

Our focus is that, no matter what anybody is doing anywhere, we are not going to lose focus. We want to leave here better than we met it. And we want to leave here without fear, Governor Fubara said.