APC okays Assembly’s plot to impeach Fubara

• Governor focused on people, not vain glory, says SSG • Clark urges IGP to arrest situation

THE Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress ( APC) has directed the State House of Assembly led by Martins Amaewhule to immediately commence the impeachment process of Governor Siminialayi Fubara.

The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Tony Okocha, warned that his party would invoke constitutional process against the lawmakers if they fail to do so. Okocha, who gave the directive while briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt, yesterday, said that the decision followed remarks by the governor that President Bola Tinubu’s intervention in the crisis rocking the state was a mere political solution.

But in a swift reaction, the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Joseph Johnson, vowed that Rivers people would resist such an order, saying: "We will not allow it, and it cannot stand."

The Commissioner said that Okocha does not have the locus standi to issue such directive, considering that he is just an acting caretaker committee chairman, which means there is a substantive Chairman of APC in the state, Emeka Bekee, and the matter is pending in court. Fubara had, on Monday, during a courtesy visi t by the Bayelsa State delegation of political and traditional leaders, led by former governor of the state, Henry Seriake Dickson, at Government House, Port Harcourt, stated that the state Assembly does not exist. M

EANWHILE, Secretary to the Rivers State Government, Tammy Danagogo, has said that contrary to past governors who embarked on projects that would bring glory to their administration, the incumbent Governor, Fubara, is rather interested in improving the lives of Rivers’ people. Danagogo disclosed this while briefing journalists in Port Harcourt, yesterday, about the commencement of a 20- day programme of activities to commemorate the governor's one year in office.

HOWEVER, the elder statesman and Ijaw leader, Edwin Clark, has called on the Inspector General of Police ( IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, to urgently arrest the political crises in Rivers State before it gets out of hand.

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