- Siminalayi Fubara, the governor of Rivers state, has denied the report that he ordered the closure of all oil operations in the state
- The fake news had claimed that the governor ordered the closure of the NNPC and other oil companies in the state
- This came on the background of the federal high court judgment that barred the CBN and the AGF from releasing the state allocation until the governor constituted a proper state house of assembly
Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has categorically denied a viral social media post claiming he shut down oil operations in the state. The false report alleged that Fubara ordered the closure of NNPC and all oil companies in Rivers, declaring “no allocation for Rivers State, no oil for Nigeria”.
This declaration was supposedly made in response to a federal high court ruling in Abuja, which restrained the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from disbursing financial allocations to the Rivers state government.
