The caretaker chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Rivers State chapter, Chief Tony Okocha, stated that running the state without a budget would lead to financial misconduct.
Okocha offered the advice on Thursday, in Abuja at an event to discuss the imperative of revisiting the president’s intervention for progress in Rivers State.
He urged Governor Siminalaye Fubara to stop running the state without a budget, according to The Nation.
Okocha also advised the governor to obey the peace agreement of President Bola Tinubu by re-presenting the state budget before the State House of Assembly.
Describing the development as gross financial misconduct by the governor, the APC chieftain accused Fubara of jettisoning an agreement he entered with the president to re-present the budget to a complete house for peace to reign in the state.
He said, “As it stands now, Rivers is sitting on a keg of gunpowder that will soon go into flames if the governor does not call himself to order. Running Rivers State without a budget amounts to gross financial misconduct.
“There must be something he is hiding because that is blatant abuse of the law and a gross disrespect for the President because it is contained in the eighth agreement he signed.”
He lamented that the governor was going against the laws of the land by ignoring the state house of assembly, regretted that it has gotten to the point where the assembly now overrides the governor for declining four important bills passed to him by the lawmakers.
