Rivers Assembly Unleashes RSIEC Showdown Over Election Scandal

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The Rivers State House of Assembly has again on Friday, at its 132nd Legislative Sitting, resolved to give another opportunity to the Chairman and Commissioners of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission to appear before the House to explain the Commission’s actions and inactions in the purported conduct of the ill-starred 5th October, 2024 Local Government Elections in the State, unbudgeted expenditures, and to further furnish the House where the commission expects to generate funds to conduct its proposed election.


The House reached the resolution after the Leader of the House, Hon. Major Jack, under statement by the Leader, informed the House that the letters inviting the Chairman and Commissioners of the Commission and the ones calling the attention of Governor Siminialayi Fubara to present the 2025 Appropriation Bill, and his infractions on the Constitution were duly delivered and publicised; but regretted that neither the Governor nor the Chairman and his Commissioners honoured the call.

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