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The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday, faulted Governor Siminalayi Fubara\u2019s 2024 budget presentation to four out of the 31 members of the state House of Assembly as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Information Nigeria reports that on Wednesday presented the N800 billion budget to the four lawmakers believed to be loyal to him at the Government House in Port Harcourt, a few minutes after the demolition of the House of Assembly Complex.<\/p>\n

Tony Okocha, the State APC Caretaker Committee Chairman, said in a statement in Port Harcourt that Section 120(2) of the Constitution clearly stated that no money shall be spent except it was appropriated by the state House of Assembly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe presentation of a bill to four suspended members of the House of Assembly does not fulfil the requirements of the constitution for all the reasons stated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Okocha cautioned that expenditure made by the state government on the outcome of such a presentation was clearly an infringement on the constitution and as such sufficient grounds to commence impeachment.<\/p>\n

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He added that the four members, led by the court backed Speaker, Edison Ehie, who sat and passed the budget presented to them by the Governor, \u201cwere dwelling on illegality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Section 92(2)C, he noted, prescribed that a Speaker can be removed by a two-thirds majority of the House of Assembly.<\/p>\n

According to him, there was no evidence to show that Martins Amaewhule, the Speaker of the House, had been removed from office.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmaewhule remains the speaker of the House of Assembly, the lawmakers passed a vote of confidence on him,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

The Chairman furthered that the move by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to end the strained relationship between Fubara and ex-Governor Nyesom Wike has failed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t part of it, but whatever that was it, has broken down, and it has been broken irreconcilably.\u201d<\/p>\n

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