The Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF), has said it would obey court order by sending financial allocations to Rivers after an appeal by the state government.
TheCable revealed that Director of Press and Public Relations at the OAGF, Bawa Mokwa, said this on Saturday.
He said although there had been a court order stopping distribution of allocations to the state, the decision of the appeal court overrides the previous order.
“We are going to obey court orders. Yesterday, after a report that the state would not be paid, the Rivers state government sent a notification of appeal to that effect,” he said.
“So, logically, we are going to obey court orders. The notification depicts that there is a stay of execution, which means we will maintain status quo. It means the state will be given allocation.”
In December 2023, Siminalayi Fubara, Rivers governor, presented an N800 billion budget estimate to the Edison Ehie faction of the house of assembly.
In July, the Rivers State House of Assembly and Martins Amaewhule, the factional speaker, instituted a suit against the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and nine others.
The Amaewhule faction of the house sought an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the CBN, the commercial banks, and the accountant-general of the federation (AGF), from granting any financial instruction from Fubara.
On October 30, a Federal High Court in Abuja restrained the CBN from disbursing financial allocations to the state government.
