The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday warned the All Progressives Congress, APC, to perish the thought of impeaching Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara.
The party’s spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, issued the warning while reacting to Rivers State APC chairman, Tony Okocha’s call on the State House of Assembly to impeach Fubara.
Okocha had made the call following Fubara’s comment that he would not recognize the state legislature amid his rift with his predecessor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike.
Ologunagba drew the attention of the Inspector General of Police to the “subversive utterances” of the APC chairman in Rivers State which he said was “capable of triggering crisis and derailing the Democratic Order in the country”.
A statement by Ologunagba reads: “The attention of the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
@OfficialPDPNig has been drawn to a delusional declaration by the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
@OfficialAPCNg in Rivers State, Mr. Tony Okocha wherein he issued a hallucinatory directive that an impeachment proceeding be commenced against the democratically elected Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara.
“Such reckless and unwarranted statement by the APC Chairman in Rivers State exposes the vile desperation of the APC, which is roundly rejected in Rivers State, to use violence, coercion and bullying to undermine the WILL of the people and forcefully take over the State.
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.
“These individuals, by virtue of Section 109 (1) (g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) have since vacated and lost their seats, rights, privileges, recognition and obligations accruable to members of the Rivers State House of Assembly after their defection from the PDP, the political Party platform upon which they were elected into the Rivers State House of Assembly