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Uproar As APC demands Fubara’s Removal

POSTED ON May 8, 2024 •   Politics      BY Benedicta Bassey •   VIEWS 145
Governor Siminlayi Fubara/Photo credit: ChannelsTv


The APC Caretaker Committee Chairman in the state, Chief Tony Okocha, on Tuesday called on the 27 members of the state House of Assembly loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to immediately commence an impeachment process against Fubara.

Okocha warned that failure of the lawmakers to heed the directive would attract severe sanctions in line with relevant sections of the party’s constitution.

The crisis between Fubara and his godfather, Wike, started last year when the Assembly dominated by Wike’s loyalists attempted to impeach the governor.

The two camps later signed a peace pact following the intervention of President Bola Tinubu.  But they had since resumed hostilities as they disagreed on the peace pact.

The Assembly had at least overridden the governor by passing at least two bills that he withheld assent.

But Rivers State Government had dismissed the call on the state House of Assembly by the Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress in the state to commence impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminlayi Fubara.

The state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, said the governor would not allow anybody to throw the state into anarchy.

Also, the leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark and other prominent individuals in the region warned the lawmakers against causing anarchy in the state.

The APC Caretaker Committee Chairman in the state, Okocha, said the governor did not have the powers to declare the lawmakers as illegal.

On his part, the leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Chief Edwin Clark, warned the lawmakers against causing tension and anarchy in the state.

He asked the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to stop the 27 lawmakers from issuing provocative statements capable of increasing tension in the state.

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