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Fubara dismisses court ruling, says ‘Rivers allocation is least of my problems’


Fubara at Thanksgiving event

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Rivers Governor Siminalayi Fubara has dismissed the Federal High Court’s judgement denying the State federal allocations describing it as “the least” of his problems.

Fubara spoke during a special thanksgiving service he organised to celebrate his administration’s resilience amidst rising political crises in the state.

He assured that despite the court order, he would continue payments to contractors and ensure workers’ salaries were disbursed from Thursday.

Fubara said that allocations for the 23 council chairmen would be credited, disclosing that the Joint Accounts Allocation Committee (JAAC) procedures had been completed.

The Governor appealed to his supporters to remain resilient and assured them that all challenges would be over.

Fubara said that those, who ruthlessly attempted to end his administration undemocratically, boasted then to achieve their purpose quickly to boot him out of office within one week but failed woefully.

The Governor said he had not only stayed in office more than one year and counting, his administration was forging on strongly with sterling leadership, focused on delivering social services and quality projects to Rivers people.

The event, which held at the Main Bowl of Alfred Diette-Spiff Civic Centre along Moscow Road in Port Harcourt Old Township on Wednesday, was a gathering of thousands of  residents and indigenes in the state.

 

 

At the event were  reputable worship leaders, clergies and gospel singers, who joined in the commemoration service to thank God over the botched attempt to abruptly end the administration of Governor Fubara on 30th October, 2023.

He expressed gratitude to God for His divine rescue by frustrating the schemes of detractors, acknowledging that without the overwhelming support of Rivers people, his winning over his transducers would not have been entirely as sweet as it had become.

Fubara said: “If you were not with us, if you had not stood with us, we won’t be here at this hour. A lot of you might not understand what happened on the 30th of October, 2023. It was an assassination to the people of Rivers State, indirectly and assassination at me directly.

“Since they can’t kill everyone of you, they need to kill one person so that everybody will be declared dead. But somehow, somewhere, by the special grace of God, they failed. And the God that we are thanking today, what they meant for evil, God turned it to good.”

Fubara mocked his detractors, who had remained determined to derail governance, and insisted that despite their antics, his administration had demonstrated prudence, transparency and accountability in handling the financial resources of the State.

He said such public financial diligence attracted commendations from BudgIT, a civic-tech organisation, that assessed Rivers  as maintaining the number one spot in the 2024 Fiscal Performance Ranking among the 36 states of the Federation.

He said: “I can tell you, they said we are not going to last for one week, we are here, we have done one year plus. We are also doing one year anniversary of their attack.

“They said those buccaneers will not leave as local government chairmen, today, we have the 23 local government chairmen sitting here with us. They said their commissioners should resign so that we will be crippled. Today, we have more than 23 commissioners.

“They said, in a programme in Rivers State University, that we are not going to do anything, and that they want to frustrate us. They are going to make us not to succeed. But by the special grace of God, we have embarked on projects that are touching the lives of Rivers people.

“We didn’t end there. We have shown prudence that we are not here to steal your money; that we are here to be accountable. And yesterday, we saw it, it was declared by BudgIT that Rivers State has shown Transparency and Accountability and has ranked us in Number One position.”

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