Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara<\/p>\n
\u2022 Wike faults Fubara\u2019s termination of 10,000 jobs for youths
\u2022 FCT minister will be under Fubara if he joins APC, says Ibrahim
\u2022 PDP boss insists Wike, Fayose, others\u2019 expulsion will stand<\/p>\n
The\u00a0immediate past Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP<\/a>) in Rivers State, Robinson Ewor, has expressed concern over \u201cthe precarious state\u201d of the 2026 budget of the state. WIKE,\u00a0speaking at Ahoada main Town, during the Renewed Hope Family\u2019s \u2018Thank you visit\u2019 said his successor (Fubara), upon resumption, cancelled what could have helped the youths of the state. However, Ibrahim said Wike would be given a seat in the APC if he decides to join. In an interview yesterday, Ibrahim said: \u201cHe will be given a seat. There will be a place for him. It\u2019s a choice for him to be under Fubara. If you follow, you will be followed; but if you don\u2019t follow, nobody is going to follow you. DURING\u00a0an appearance on Channels Television\u2019s The Morning Brief, Ogidi said: \u201cNigerians know the truth. They (Wike, Fayose, Anyanwu, others) are just making noise. They\u2019ve been expelled.\u201d\u00a0
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During his visit to Rivers\u2019 local councils, Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, yesterday, alleged that Governor Siminalayi Fubara<\/a> cancelled an employment procedure put in place by his administration to employ 10,000 youths.
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Meanwhile, Director of Information of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bala Ibrahim, disclosed that Wike will be under Fubara if he defects to the party.
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This was just as South-South PDP Chairman, Emmanuel Ogidi, insisted that the suspension of Wike, ex-governor of Ekiti State, Ayo Fayose and others stands.\u00a0
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Ewor lamented that Rivers had yet to have an appropriated budget for the 2026 fiscal year, despite the passage of time. Following the renewed political crisis involving Fubara, Wike and the Martins Amaewhule-led House of Assembly, the State Executive Council (SEC) only succeeded in approving a proposed N1.854 trillion budget for the 2026 fiscal year on Friday, January 2, 2026.
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Further legislative deliberations on the budget, tagged \u2018Budget of Resilience for Growth and Development\u2019 have yet to take place. With the collapse of rival legislative factions into a single House aligned with Wike\u2019s camp and led by Amaewhule, the governor, observers say, can no longer bypass the Assembly on budgetary matters.
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The governor\u2019s Special Adviser on Economic Matters and Social Development, Prof Peter Medee, had earlier disclosed that the SEC approved an aggregate budget size of N1.854 trillion for the provision of goods and services in 2026.
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Speaking yesterday during a \u201cthank you\u201d visit by Wike to Ahoada East Local Council of the state, Ewor expressed concern that the governor might have been spending public funds illegally.
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In his remarks, Wike said the visit was to thank the people for voting President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 general election and to further mobilise them to do the same in 2027.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI employed 10,000Rivers youths. The person we handed over power to cancelled that job,\u201d he said, recalling that when he was the governor, Rivers was the envy of other states of the federation.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen he was the governor, he was followed; now that he is not the governor he must follow. You can\u2019t carry the position of leadership after vacating the seat. He can\u2019t get what he wants all the time, there are times that if you go against the laid down regulations, you can\u2019t get what you want.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The PDP, during its national convention in November, expelled Wike, Fayose, Samuel Anyanwu and eight others over what the party described as \u201canti-party\u201d activities.\u00a0
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The convention, held in Ibadan, Oyo State, cited activities it described as inconsistent with the party\u2019s collective interest as reasons for the move. It later issued a certificate of expulsion to the affected persons.\u00a0However, the group in the PDP loyal to Wike said it expelled Governor Seyi Makinde and others, who backed the expulsion.
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