Amaechi described the move by the PDP to
oust him through the State House of Assembly as senseless and
unnecessary, adding that the PDP would not be able to persuade the state
lawmakers to impeach him.
The governor said on Sunday that he
already had 26 members of the State House of Assembly that were on his
side and pointed out that it would be difficult for the remaining five
lawmakers in the House to remove him from office.
Amaechi, who spoke through the Chief of
Staff Government House, Port Harcourt, Chief Tony Okocha, said the
governor had not committed any impeachable offence.
He said, “It is very impossible for the
governor to be impeached. The impeachment plot, if it is real will
definitely fail. How can five lawmakers impeach a governor in a House of
31 members?
“They (PDP) are groping in the dark and
they will soon realise that they are embarking on a wild goose chase
because not even one of the 26 lawmakers will listen to any impeachment
plot.”
Also, the Deputy Speaker of the State
House of Assemby, Mr. Leyii Kwanee, said that none of the 26 members of
the State House of Assembly would succumb to any pressure to impeach
Amaechi.
Kwanee explained that majority of the
lawmakers were obligated to continue to support the governor till the
end, adding that Amaechi’s position was aimed at protecting the future
of the people of the state.
He said, “Rivers State is already a bad
market for any committee that will come to persuade us (lawmakers) to
impeach the governor.
“We, the pro-Amaechi lawmakers are
obligated to support him (Amaechi). What the governor is doing is to
protect the future of the people. It is for the future of Rivers State.
“Some people have been talking about
brotherhood from the South-South. But politics is about interest and not
brotherhood. The lawmakers in Rivers State will never succumb to any
pressure to remove their governor.”
He said that there was a subsisting court judgment that prevented the House of Assembly from impeaching Amaechi.
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