Following the lifting of the six-month state of emergency rule imposed on Rivers state by President Bola Tinubu, members of the State House of Assembly have resumed plenary.
The assembly, led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule reconvened on Thursday afternoon at the Assembly Residential Complex along the Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway.
The Assembly has resolved to probe the state’s finances during the six-month rule of Ibok-Ete Ibas as the sole administrator.
Plenary last held on March 12, 2025, barely a week before the emergency rule was declared.
Similarly, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, and the House of Assembly members were suspended for six months due to a political crisis in the state.
But on Wednesday, the president lifted the emergency rule and directed the governor, his deputy, and the House of Assembly members to resume work.
As the House reconvened, Governor Fubara had yet to return to the Government House, even as a large crowd of supporters gathered there awaiting his arrival.
As early as 7 am, supporters of the governor had trooped to the streets to celebrate his anticipated return and expected broadcast.
Some of the residents came in groups of drummers and singers waiting for Fubara to arrive at Brick House.
The display, which appeared as a carnival, was led by key supporters of the returned Governor, including Darlington Orji, Sokare Goodboy, Ezebunwo Ichemati and others.
But the governor was not sighted throughout the morning, leaving many supporters disappointed.
By midday, some had begun to disperse quietly to their homes, while others lingered in hope that he would surface.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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