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Fubara draws fresh battle line with pro-Wike lawmakers, presents 2025 budget to Rivers Assembly faction

The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Monday, presented the 2025 budget proposal of ₦1.1 trillion to a faction of the state’s House of Assembly led by Victor Oko-Jumbo.
The latest development is expected to set the state on a fresh warpath following the crisis that trailed the 2024 budget presentation.
This is the second time in one year the governor will present the budget estimate to a few lawmakers since the state political crisis began in September last year.
Fubara had on December 13, 2023, presented the 2024 budget proposal of N800 billion to a four-member Assembly led by Edison Ehie.
This followed the defection of 26 lawmakers led by Martins Amaewhule from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC)
Edie, a former House Leader, was removed for refusing to support an attempt to impeach Fubara by some of his colleagues and later appointed speaker of the House by lawmakers loyal to the governor.
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The Court of Appeal, Abuja, in October, ordered the governor to present the 2024 budget to the Assembly led by Amaewhule.
Amaewhule, a loyalist of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, was reinstated as the speaker of the Assembly by the appeal court on July 4.
But the Rivers State government has continued to insist that Amawhule and 25 other defectors were not reinstated by the court.
In his address at the Assembly Complex in Port Harcourt on Monday, Governor Fubara described the 2025 budget as a blueprint for consolidating the achievements of his government in the state.
He said Rivers State recorded significant milestones, particularly in economic growth and revenue generation in the outgoing year.
He added that the sum of ₦462 billion was earmarked as recurrent expenditure and ₦678 billion for capital expenditure in the budget.
The 2025 budget projections, according to him, were based on economic indicators oil price benchmark of $80 per barrel, a production target of 1.8 million barrels per day, an exchange rate of ₦1,500 per dollar, and a 22 percent inflation rate.
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