Mohammed Shosanya
The All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has mandated the State House of Assembly to resume impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
The pro-Wike 27 lawmakers of the Rivers State House of Assembly led by Rt. Hon. Martin Amaehwule, were issued the marching orders on Tuesday by the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the State, Chief Tony Okocha.
Okocha, while briefing journalists in Port Harcourt said the decision of the party was in response to the remarks credited to Governor Fubara suggesting that the Peace Pact brokered by President Bola Tinubu was only a political solution and not constitutional.
Okocha threatened that the Party will also invoke relevant sections of its constitution to discipline the Assembly members should they fail to commence the impeachment processes against the governor.
He said, “A state as crucial and all-important as Rivers State churned out a dunderhead. We cannot accept that, and we are charging the Assembly is to immediately commence an impeachment process against the Governor.
“And if they don’t do that there is what they call party discipline. We shall invoke the relevant section of the constitution.”
Recall that Governor Fubara had on Monday, while receiving a delegation of political and traditional leaders from Bayelsa state, led by Senator Henry Seriake Dickson on a courtesy visit at Government House in Port Harcourt, accused the lawmakers and other political leaders of rebuffing his efforts for reconciliation, declaring that the lawmakers were illegitimate in the eyes of the law.
Governor Fubara also stated that he only accepted President Tinubu’s peace resolution to give the Assembly members a soft-landing after their failed impeachment attempt against him on October 30, 2023, and their subsequent defection from the PDP to the APC.
