•Clark asks IGP to warning anti-governor lawmakers
•Says plot is invitation to chaos
Sunday Aborisade in Abuja and Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt
Warfare seems to have resumed in Port Harcourt, Rivers State because the 27 lawmakers whose seats had been declared vacant following their defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC, and affirmed by the state Excessive Courtroom are shifting to provoke impeachment proceedings in opposition to Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The 27-member pro-Wike lawmakers led by Martin Amaewhule, had been directed yesterday by the Rivers State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) to begin impeachment proceedings in opposition to the Governor for what the state chapter known as “clueless and directionless” governance of the state by Fubara.
Caretaker Committee Chairman of APC, Mr Tony Okocha, acknowledged this yesterday at a press convention at his workplace in Port Harcourt.
However elder statesman and foremost nationalist, Chief Edwin Clark, urged the Inspector Basic of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, to instantly halt what he known as an illegal plot to question the governor, saying it quantities to invitation to chaos.
The impeachment directive adopted Fubara’s latest declaration that members of the APC-dominated Meeting didn’t exist as lawmakers anymore within the eyes of the legislation
Okocha mentioned no part of the structure empowered the governor to declare the Meeting members non-existent.
He acknowledged that the federal government of Fubara was clueless and, due to this fact, lacked standards on tips on how to govern the state.
Okocha acknowledged, “On a regular basis we discover justification in our assertions that the federal government of Sir Siminalayi Fubara is the worst factor that has occurred in our political panorama, in our political historical past.
“We’re justified each different second in our assertion that the federal government is clueless, is directionless, and it’s ruthless. And that the governor is even compounding the matter. He’s procuring for himself different very detrimental dictions and the penchant to deceive Rivers folks.”
Talking on the presidential settlement over the political disaster within the state, Okocha warned that APC wouldn’t maintain watching whereas the governor continued to undermine President Bola Tinubu.
“To that extent, in session with my social gathering, we now have directed APC Meeting members to instantly begin impeachment processes of Governor Sim Fubara. Impeachment of a authorities that doesn’t respect the rule of legislation,” he mentioned.
However the Commissioner for data, Mr Joe Johnson, mentioned the APC chairman didn’t have the locus standi to direct the lawmakers to begin an impeachment course of.
Johnson mentioned, “Tony Okocha, by definition, is an appearing caretaker chairman and you recognize as soon as there exists a caretaker, it means there’s a substantive chairman of APC within the identify of Chief Emeka Beke. That matter is earlier than the jury and the problem of whether or not he has the ability to direct signifies that the reply is not any.”
In the meantime, Clark requested the IGP to cease the lawmakers from parading themselves as duly elected lawmakers following their defection from Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) to APC.
Clark, who could be 97 years later this month, made the attraction in an open letter to the IGP, which he learn out to journalists at a information convention in Abuja, yesterday.
The chief of the Pan Niger Delta Discussion board (PANDEF) mentioned the IGP held it an obligation to save lots of Rivers State from an imminent disaster and, by extension, the nation’s democracy from derision, by defending the sanctity of the provisions of the 1999 Structure (as amended).
Clark mentioned the 27 Rivers State lawmakers ceased to be members of the state legislature instantly they defected from PDP to APC.
He urged Egbetokun to make sure that the legal guidelines of the nation had been obeyed by the Meeting members somewhat than permit them to additional plunge Rivers State into disaster by plotting Fubara’s impeachment.
