BREAKING: Rivers Assembly Gets New Speaker Loyal To Gov Fubara [Video]

Lawmakers loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara have elected Hon. Victor Oko Jumbo as the new Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly.

Naija News reports that Hon. Oko Jumbo on Wednesday took the oath of office as the factional Speaker of the Assembly.

Jumbo expressed willingness to work with Governor Fubara, stating that he has directed the Clerk of the Assembly to communicate the emergence of a new leadership of the assembly to the executive.

Fubara has refused to recognise the state House of Assembly, led by Hon. Martin Amaewhule, following the decison of the lawmakers loyal to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He had claimed that the Amaewhule-led Assembly had ceased to exist by law.

Fubara had stated, “Let me say it here, those group of men who claim that they are assembly members, they are not existing. I want it to be on record.

“I accepted that peace accord to give them a soft-landing. That’s the truth. There is nothing in that peace accord that is a constitutional issue. It is a political solution to a problem. I accepted it because these are people that were visiting me and we were together in my house.

“These are people that I have helped… in many ways when I wasn’t even a governor. Yes, we might have our disagreements, but I believe that one day, we could also come together. That was the reason I did it.

“But I think it has gotten to a time when I need to make a statement on this thing, so that they understand that they are not existing. Their existence and whatever they have been doing is because I allowed them to do so. If I don’t recognise them, they are nowhere, that is the truth.”

Watch video of the factional Speaker addressing newsmen below.

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