By Wasilat Dabiri
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said that his administration has started the process of preparing the 2025 budget.
This is as the governor insisted that the seats of Martin Amaewhule and the other state lawmakers who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress remain vacant.
Fubara stated that they will eventually return home because they desired it to be so when they voluntarily defected from the platform on which they won their election voluntarily.
The governor spoke when he received on solidarity visit opinion leaders, women, and youths of Etche and Omuma Local Government Areas led by Ogbakor Etche at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital, on Wednesday.
This was contained in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Nelson Chukwudi.
The governor urged the former lawmakers to wake up from their slumber to see the ship of governance in the state sailing on smoothly.
Fubara also said that his administration has started preparing details of the 2025 Appropriation Bill, with priority placed on education, healthcare, and agriculture.
He said, “Let me assure you that agriculture is an area that we have promised the very special and peace-loving people of Rivers State that our 2025 budget, which we have already started preparing, will address.
“Don’t bother about those people who are delusional. They think we are still sleeping. Let me tell you people so that they can hear anywhere they are.