Rivers Government Reacts As Assembly Demands Sack Of Commissioners However, in a swift rebuttal, the state government rejected the directive, describing it as baseless and overreaching.
Reacting to the ultimatum, State Commissioner for Environment, Sydney Tambari, implicated the 27 pro-Wike lawmakers of acting on the figment of their imagination and attempting to exceed their constitutional boundaries.
The Round Table reveals that Tambari maintained that all serving commissioners had already undergone the necessary screening and confirmation by the legally recognized leadership of the House under former Speaker Edison Ehie, who is now Chief of Staff to the Governor.
“I was screened by Edison Ehie, who was duly recognized by the court as Speaker of the House of Assembly. Before then, this group of people had defected from the PDP and exhausted to wherever they went to,” Tambari reported.
He further noted that after Ehie’s resignation, his successor, Victor Oko-Jumbo, also presided over the screening and confirmation of additional commissioners and political appointees.
According To Tambari, “The governor cannot send any fresh list of nominees to this Assembly. Their demand for the sacking of the commissioners has been overtaken by events because all appointees were duly screened.”
Tambari also chastized the lawmakers for allegedly misinterpreting the Supreme Court governing, which, according to him, only addressed the 2024 budget presentation and did not mandate the removal of commissioners or political appointees.
He disclosed, “The Supreme Court talked about the budget, not about sacking commissioners. The presentation of the budget is at the discretion of the governor, and this has already been overtaken by events.”
The political tension in Rivers State has abide to climb up amid an enhancing fall out between Governor Fubara and the pro-Wike lawmakers, who were previously sacked after defecting from the PDP to the APC but were reinstated by the Supreme Court.
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Published 3/6/2025