The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a request to stop the National Assembly from approving the Rivers State 2025 budget.

The budget under the current sole administrator, Ibok-Ete Ibas, a retired vice admiral ran into over 1.4 Billion Naira.

Judge James Omotosho, in a ruling on Friday, held that the court could not grant the prayer because the action the plaintiffs sought to stop had already been completed.

It could be recalled that President Bola Tinubu, on 18 March, declared an emergency rule in Rivers State under which he suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara and other elected officials for six months and appointed Mr Ibas as the sole administrator of the state for the period.

The Senate, which took over the legislative functions of the Rivers State House of Assembly following the emergency declaration, passed the state’s 2025 budget on 25 June.