Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, dismissed a suit seeking to stop the Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara from re-presenting the state’s 2024 budget estimate of N800 billion.
A five-member Rivers State House of Assembly led by the factional Speaker, Edison Ehie, on December 13, 2023, passed the appropriation bill forwarded by Fubara and the governor signed the bill the following day.
But Justice James Omotosho in a judgement delivered on January 22 set aside the budget passed by five lawmakers and signed by the governor.
