Rivers: Fresh crisis looms as Assembly questions Fubara’s delay in presenting commissioners
Deprecated: mb_convert_encoding(): Handling HTML entities via mbstring is deprecated; use htmlspecialchars, htmlentities, or mb_encode_numericentity/mb_decode_numericentity instead in /home/newsaggs/societywatchng.com/wp-content/plugins/linkfast/includes/tooltip.php on line 18
Deprecated: Function utf8_decode() is deprecated in /home/newsaggs/societywatchng.com/wp-content/plugins/linkfast/includes/tooltip.php on line 21
Fresh crisis appears to be brewing in Rivers State as the House of Assembly has expressed concern over the continued delay by Governor Siminalayi Fubara in submitting a list of commissioner nominees for screening
The lawmakers raised the concern during Friday’s plenary session.
SOCIETYWATCH recalls that during the House’s first sitting following the suspension of the emergency rule in September 2025, the Assembly urged the governor to forward a list of commissioner nominees to ensure effective governance in the state.
Since then, Fubara has dismissed all commissioners appointed during the height of the political crisis, noting that they were not screened by the constitutionally recognized Assembly as declared by the Supreme Court ruling.
However, he retained commissioners who were duly screened and approved before the crisis, and reassigned some of them to other ministries.
At present, the state is operating without a substantial number of commissioners, with permanent secretaries overseeing key ministries.
Several critical ministries, including Education and Communication, currently have no appointed commissioners.
The governor has yet to give any reason for the delay.
