Siminalayi Fubara, the governor of Rivers State, has appointed four new people as the State House Assembly is voting to overrule him in order to enact four new laws.
On Friday, the governor named Ine Briggs the acting director general of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Tonte Davies the acting administrator of the New Cities Development Authority (NCDA), and Goodlife Ben the acting chairman of the Local Government Service Commission.
The governor announced that the appointments are effective immediately in a statement issued by Tammy Danagogo, Secretary to the State Government.
Four new measures were passed into law on Friday by the Rivers State House of Assembly, led by Martins Amaewhule, overriding Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s veto.
The Rivers State Traditional Rulers Amendment statute, the Rivers Local Government Amendment Law, the Rivers State Funds Management and Financial Autonomy Law, and the Rivers State Advertisement and Use of State-Owned Property Prohibition repeal statute are among the bills.
During Friday’s plenary session, the House made a decision following Amaewhule’s reading of four letters from the governor in which the governor rejected to provide his consent to four additional measures that were delivered to him.
The House bases its decision on Section 100 Subsection 5 of the Constitution, which states that the governor’s consent is not necessary for the bills to become law.
The house declared that in the event that the governor abstains from giving his or her consent and the bill is once more approved by a two-thirds majority of members, it will become law without the governor’s consent.
Amaewhule further charged that the governor had no intention of holding elections for the state’s local government.