APC warns against alleged plot to impeach Ameachi

Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi

THE All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has warned the six state legislators opposed to Governor Rotimi Amaechi to desist from an alleged plot to hold plenary at the state secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party with the aim of impeaching the governor.

 The APC said because the anti-Amaechi lawmakers could not enter the state House of Assembly Complex, they were planning to resort to using the state PDP secretariat to remove the governor on December 17.

The party said part of the six legislators’ plan was to announce the member representing Ogu/Bolo Constituency as acting governor after removing Amaechi.

The party insisted that it would not tolerate the holding of such session by the six out of the 32 lawmakers in the state PDP secretariat. It therefore called on the Nigeria Police to seal the PDP secretariat.

 APC pointed out that the plot was to remove Amaechi and use the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to arrest him based on trumped-up charges.

In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Public Affairs to the state Chairman of the APC, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, the party warned that the outcome of such plan would be null and void.

“The resort to sitting at the PDP  secretariat, we understand, is occasioned by the failure of the rebel lawmakers to gain access to the state House of Assembly, to which the police have also denied the 28 majority  lawmakers access.

“We have never seen where lawmakers sit in a party secretariat to carry out any business of the House and we wish to say in advance that such an action will be null and void and of no consequence whatsoever,” Eze said.

Meanwhile, the  Interim Chairman of APC in Rivers State, Dr. Davies Ikanya, has described as sad and unfortunate the statement credited to the Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, that the Rivers State crisis was Amaechi’s way of paying for underrating him (Wike).

Ikanya said,  “This is an individual who benefitted so much from Governor Amaechi and who was nominated as a minister by Governor Amaechi, who stoutly defended him even when President Goodluck Jonathan queried his nomination.”

Reacting, the state PDP Chairman, Mr. Felix Obuah, dismissed the impeachment allegation describing the source of such information as confused and ignorant of the law.

 Obuah, who spoke through his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Jerry Needam, added that the PDP had no plan to impeach Amaechi.

 He described the PDP as law abiding party with the fear of God.

 Obuah said, “When people are confused and illiterate, they begin to talk about what is not obtainable.

 “On the agenda of the PDP, there is nothing like impeachment. If you want to impeach a governor, you must notify him (the governor) and like the Supervising Minister of Education said, you cannot impeach the governor without a Chief Judge that would ratify it.”