Governor Fubara accused of squandering N144.28 billion
Rivers State Governor Siminalaye Fubara has been accused of squandering N144.28 billion of public funds. Tony Okocha, the state’s caretaker chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), levelled the allegation against the governor.
Okocha had visited the State House of Assembly to lay his complaint. The APC chieftain said the money was allocated to Rivers State from the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) between June 2023 and December 2023.
Okocha said, “Mr. Speaker, this might sound unpalatable and annoying. We have applied and received data on the sum received by the Rivers State government from the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee from June 2023 to December 2023.”
The APC gained control of the assembly following the defection of 27 lawmakers, formerly of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The lawmakers are loyalists of former governor, Nyesom Wike. Wike had cherry picked Fubara to succeed him but they fell apart recently, with violence and litigations become some of the fallouts.
