Perish The Thought Of Impeaching Fubara, PDP Tells APC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the All Progressives Congress (APC) to abolish any thought of impeaching Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
The statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, on Wednesday, was in response to the directive of the APC Chairman in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, to the members of the state House of Assembly to begin impeachment process against Fubara.
Okocha had threatened that if the Assembly members failed to restart the impeachment proceedings against the governor, he would invoke party discipline upon them.
However, Ologunagba said that such statement by Okocha exposed the vile desperation of the APC to forcefully take over the oil-rich South-South state.
The PDP claimed that the lawmakers being directed the APC chairman are not legally members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and cannot contemplate or exercise such powers under the law.
The party described the call for the governor’s impeachment as a brazen call for anarchy as it amounts to an attempt to forcefully overthrow a democratic order.
The statement partly read; “The fact that the Rivers State APC Chairman, in his warped imagination, thinks he can direct impeachment proceeding against a duly elected State Governor not only shows the level of APC’s arrogance and condescension for the people of Rivers State but also further confirms APC’s desperation to forcefully annex their democratic rights under the Constitution.
“In any event, the individuals that the Rivers State APC Chairman directed to commence impeachment proceedings against Governor Fubara are not legally members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and cannot contemplate or exercise such powers under the law.
“The unlawful directive by the Rivers State APC Chairman to these individuals to commence an impeachment proceeding against the Governor is therefore a brazen call for anarchy as it amounts to an attempt to forcefully overthrow a democratic Order in clear violation of Section 1 sub-section 2 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).”
