Fubara spends state funds recklessly- Rivers APC

March 13, 2024 Joshua Samuel

Tony Okocha, the Rivers State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has accused Governor Siminialayi Fubara of frivolously wasting money meant for the state’s development.

Okocha made the charge on Tuesday in Port Harcourt while addressing reporters on Rivers’ development over the last ten months of Fubara’s administration.

Okocha remarked that the APC in Rivers had concluded that Fubara’s administration was “visionless”.

“The governor is busy spending money on thanksgiving in all the local government areas of the state.

“We are here to condemn in absolute terms, the inactivity of this government; the governor is meant to consolidate on the road plan of his predecessors, but we have seen that the governor has derailed from the consolidation plan.

“Government should be about continuity, that is why the current governor of Akwa Ibom continued with the laid down plans of the government.

“The governor of Rivers is completely out of the road plans, apart from the ring road initiated by the former governor Nyesom Wike, there is no other road project initiated in the state by the current administration.

“We need to know what is happening in Rivers state; people are saying, the governor is transforming Songai farm, rehabilitating cassava plant.

“How does that translate to good governance for Rivers people? So, the support is highly orchestrated by the governor himself,” Okocha said.

Regarding the country’s economic difficulty, the state APC Chair said that it was a worldwide issue rather than the result of leadership failure.

According to him, President Bola Tinubu was anxious to alleviate Nigerians’ pain, just as he exhibited political will by eliminating the “anti-people” fuel subsidy.

“The Federal Government added the funds gotten from the removal of subsidy to the states allocation to cushion the effect of hardship.

“This is why states now get not less than 20 billion as their monthly allocation.

“Some state governments were busy giving palliatives to people in their states to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy.

“Rivers State is number three in terms of federal allocation, what has the state government done with the funds allocated to it,” he added.

He, therefore, called on the governor to ensure that he conducts local government elections in accordance with the constitution.

He also urged him to form the State Executive Council, or SEC, and not administer the state alone without the State Assembly, as APC members are in the majority.

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