PDP kicks as plot to impeach Fubara thickens

Rivers LG chairmen endorse APC’s call Govt bars LG staff from appearing before Assembly The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the call by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State on the State House of Assembly to institute an impeachment proceeding against the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, is [...]

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Rivers LG chairmen endorse APC’s call Govt bars LG staff from appearing before Assembly The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the call...

By Baba Martins Rivers LG chairmen endorse APC’s call Govt bars LG staff from appearing before Assembly The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the call by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State on the State House of Assembly to institute an impeachment proceeding against the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, is an invitation to anarchy. This is even as the Rivers State chapter of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) said it endorsed the call for the impeachment of the governor, accusing the governor of withholding and tempering with funds meant for the 23 LGAs in the state. The crisis in the state, which started late last year between Governor Fubara and his immediate successor and estranged political godfather, Nyesom Wike, the FCT Minister, entered another level on Tuesday when the state chapter of the APC called on its 27 members in the House of Assembly, including the speaker, to commence the impeachment process.



Before then, the lawmakers had continuously threatened to impeach the governor, accusing him of not abiding by the terms of the peace deal brokered by President Bola Tinubu late last year. The lawmakers had also overridden the decision of the governor to decline assent to several bills earlier passed by the House. But the call by the APC leadership on T.