RIVERS: APC requests Assembly to begin impeachment proceedings against Fubara
THE Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has requested that members of the House of Assembly commence impeachment procedures against Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
The party’s temporary Chairman, Tony Okocha, stated today during a press conference in Port Harcourt that the party will not sit back and let the governor disrespect President Bola Tinubu.
He further said that if the Assembly members failed to restart the impeachment proceedings against the governor, he would impose Party discipline on them.
“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 (sic) absurd(ity) to see the governor espouse impunity and intimidation on a people who are members of our political party, and we stand akimbo doing nothing.”
Speaking further, Okocha said, “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.”
He further threatened that if the Assembly members fail to restart the impeachment proceedings against the Governor he would invoke Party discipline upon them.
“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,” he stated.
Fubara blasted the Rivers State House of Assembly members’ attitude towards his administration yesterday, saying that if he so determines, the members will no longer exist as legislators.
He stated that the lawmakers exist because of his recognition, which is based on President Bola Tinubu’s Peace Accord.
He said, “Those group of men who claim that are Assembly members are not Assembly members, they are not existing. I want it to be on record. I accepted that Peace Accord to give them a floating. That is the truth. There was nothing in that Peace Accord that’s a constitutional issue; it’s a political solution to a problem. And I accepted it because these were people that were eating in my house, these were people I have helped paid their children’s school fees when I wasn’t even a governor. So, what is the thing there?
“We might have our division but I believe that one day, we could also come together but it has gotten to a time when I have to make a statement that they are not existing. Their existence is me allowing them to exist. If I de-recognise them, they are nowhere. I want you to see the sacrifice I have made in allowing peace to reign in our state.”
