In recent times, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has demonstrated many facets of project commissioning. Amidst the usual fanfare, what stole the show at the formal opening of Nabo Graham-Douglas Campus of the Nigerian Law School in Port Harcourt on November 18, 2022 was Wike’s revelation that the Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government had released arrears of monthly allocation from the federal government on basis of 13 percent derivation principle that were not paid to the country’s nine oil producing states since 1999 that the law came to force.