*Dissolutions of LGs nullified
*Fubara to represent 2024 budget
*Resigned Commissioners to be re-absorbed
*Stops impeachment process against Fubara
President Bola Tinubu alongside other critical stakeholders on Monday night successfully resolved the political crisis rocking the Rivers State
The crisis was resolved at a meeting President Bola Tinubu held with Governor Siminalayi Fubara, a former governor of the state, Peter Odili, and the immediate past Governor, Nyesom Wike, and other stakeholders at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
In a resolution document signed Monday night and sighted by Vital News, Tinubu directed that all matters instituted in the courts by the governor and his team in respect of the political crisis be withdrawn immediately.
He also, ordered that all impeachment proceedings initiated against the governor by the state House of Assembly should be dropped immediately.
The resolution document was signed by Fubara, Wike; National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu; Speaker, Rivers State Assembly, Martin Amaewhule; PDP Chairman, Rivers State, Aaron Chukwuemeka and APC Chairman, Rivers State, Tony Okocha.
The resolution document reads that : “ The leadership of the Rivers State House of Assembly as led by the Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule shall be recognised alongside the 27 members who resigned from the PDP.
“The remunerations and benefits of all members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and their staff must be reinstated immediately and the Governor of Rivers State shall henceforth not interfere with the full funding of the Rivers State House of Assembly.”
Given the inhabitable state of the Rivers State House of Assembly building, Tinubu directed that the lawmakers : “shall choose where they want to sit and conduct their legislative business without interference and/or hindrance from the Executive arm of government.”
Also, Fubara, who had earlier presented the 2024 Appropriation Bill of his state to four members of the Assembly “shall re-present the state budget to a properly constituted Rivers State House of Assembly.”
Likewise, the President directed that the names of all commissioners in the Rivers State Executive Council who resigned their appointments because of the political crisis in the state “should be resubmitted to the House of Assembly for approval.
“There should not be a caretaker committee for the local governments in Rivers State” declaring the dissolution of the Local Government administration as “null and void”.
(vitalnewsngr.com)
