Impeachment by minority not new –S’South elders

Some leaders from the South-South geo-political zone said in Abuja on Wednesday that there was nothing new in using the minority to impeach the majority.
The leaders, who were 14 in number, spoke at the residence of their leader, Chief Edwin Clark, on the attempt by five lawmakers in the Rivers State House Assembly to impeach the Speaker, who had the backing of 27 members.
Though the South-South leaders said they were not in support of any form of impeachment process other the one provided for in the Nigerian Constitution, they however said it was unfortunate that those criticising the crisis in the Rivers State House of Assembly kept quiet when such actions were carried out in other states.
Reading a prepared speech, the Deputy Chairman of the group, Air Cdre. Idongesit Nkanga (retd.), said, “When the Ogun State House of Assembly was enmeshed in crisis, where lawmakers used all sorts of cudgels, including firearms, to brutalise one another, where were those criticising the Rivers mayhem?
“When Governor Rashidi Ladoja of Oyo State was impeached by the minority members in the Oyo State House of Assembly, an action that paved the way for the emergence of former Governor Christopher Alao-Akala where were they?”
But it will be recalled that the Supreme Court reversed the action of the lawmakers in the state and restored Ladoja as the governor.
Nkanga also cited the case of Adamawa State, where he said the party was factionalised and and that there were two state executives of the Peoples Democratic Party.

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