Rivers APC Demands Fubara's Impeachment
The Rivers APC requests that the assembly take up Fubara's impeachment process.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) caretaker committee in Rivers has requested that the governor, Siminalayi Fubara, be removed from office by the state parliament.
The house of assembly retracted its notice of intent to impeach Fubara in December following President Bola Tinubu's intervention regarding a disagreement between the governor and Nyesom Wike, the minister of the federal capital territory (FCT)
The two men have been at odds over who controls Rivers' political system.
The head of the APC in the state, Tony Okocha, charged the governor of “insulting” Tinubu during a press conference on Tuesday in Port Harcourt.
He said: “It'll be foolhardy for us to sit down and see someone way less than Mr President insult him under our very nose.
“It is also an absurdity to see the governor espouse impunity and intimidation on people who are members of our political party, and we stand akimbo doing nothing.
“As representatives of Mr President we won't sit here and see the governor insult the President. We won't sit here to see the governor declare on his own as if he's a court to declare Assembly members' seats vacant.
“To that extent, in consultation with my party, we are directing APC members who are in the Assembly to immediately commence the impeachment of Governor Sim Fubara.
“And if they don't do that, there's what they call party discipline, and we shall invoke that section of the constitution and deal decisively with them.”
Fubara stated on Monday that he was shocked by the assembly members' disregard for his government and that he was the sole reason the lawmakers were in existence.
The governor went on to say that he agreed to Tinubu's peace proposal because it was a political means of mending the division.
APC lawmakers in the Rivers assembly, consisting of 27, were among the PDP's defectors in December. A subsequent declaration of vacancy was made for the seats of 25 legislators.
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