Breaking: Tinubu summons Ibas, ex-Rivers Administrator to Aso Rock

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

President Bola Tinubu has summoned the contiguous past Rivers State Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.), to Aso Villa.

Ibas, who arrived astatine the statesmanlike villa astatine astir 5:50 p.m. clad successful brownish autochthonal attire, was intimately followed by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, and the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukayede.

Earlier, Edun entered the villa but rapidly left, lone to instrumentality with a record successful hand, signaling the seriousness of the meeting.

Ibas served six months arsenic the sole head of the oil-rich state. He near bureau connected September 17, pursuing the extremity of the six-month exigency rule, aft the President directed the suspended authorities governor, Sir Sim Fubara, his deputy, and the authorities House of Assembly members to instrumentality to bureau from the erstwhile Thursday.

The Rivers State House of Assembly, chaired by Speaker Martin Amaewhule, had, during its archetypal plenary league aft the extremity of exigency rule, stated that it would analyse the state’s expenditure during the six months of exigency rule.

According to the resolutions of the House, “To research the process of knowing what transpired during the exigency regularisation with respect to spending from the consolidated gross money for the grant of contracts and different expenditure.”

Ibas had rejected the determination to probe the state’s expenditure implicit the past fewer months nether him.

It was gathered that Rivers State received astatine slightest N254.37 cardinal from the Federation Account Allocation Committee betwixt March and August 2025, nether the tenure of the erstwhile sole administrator.

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