Rivers: Pro-Wike Lawmakers Withdraw Impeachment Move Against Fubara
The pro-Wike members of the Rivers State House of Assembly on Wednesday, December 20, 2023 withdrew the impeachment notice earlier sent to the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
The lawmakers announced the withdrawal in a notice that was read at Assembly plenary in Port Harcourt saying that the change of plan followed their respect for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu..
Resident Tinubu had on Monday night, intervened in the political crisis that engulfed Rivers State as a result of differences between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike and Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
At the meeting which took place at the presidential Villa, Abuja, President Tinubu, in an eight-point resolution he read out, directed that all lawsuits instituted in courts by Fubara and his team regarding the political crisis in Rivers State be withdrawn immediately.
Tinubu also directed that all impeachment proceedings initiated by the Rivers Assembly against Fubara should be dropped forthwith.
Governor Fubara was also directed to re-present the 2024 budget he had earlier presented to the five members of the Rivers Assembly to the full House.
Governor Fubara and Wike have been at serious loggerheads over the control of the state’s political structure, a development that led to the splitting of the members of the Rivers Assembly with 27 of them defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
