APC alleges plot to use minority lawmakers to unseat Amaechi

The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has raised the alarm about the desperation of the six members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, allegedly acting at the behest of the Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, to illegally and unconstitutionally impeach the state Governor, Hon. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi.
The party, in a statement by Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, the Senior Special Aide on Media and Public Affairs to the Interim State Chairman, said credible information at its disposal has it that the six rebel lawmakers have concluded plans to use hired hoodlums to forcefully gain entrance into the Rivers State House of Assembly for the purpose of impeaching Amaechi as directed by their sponsors in Abuja.
Making reference to one of the pro-Wike lawmakers’ stance, the party noted: “As a measure of his confidence, the self-acclaimed speaker and leader of the six rebel lawmakers, Hon. Evans Bipi, today in Port Harcourt boasted that he holds the key to the State House of Assembly and that he will gain entrance to the complex whenever he feels like sitting with his members.
“Needless to say that this devilish plot, if allowed to see the light of day, will throw Rivers State into unprecedented chaos, but God in His infinite mercy will not allow it to come to pass.”
Continuing, the party said the allegation of leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State that Amaechi intends to invite the majority 28 members of the state House of Assembly to sit in the Government House and pass the 2014 Budget of the state was not only laughable but also showed their level of ignorance.
The party said: “These funny characters forgot so soon that Governor Amaechi was the Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly for eight years and Chairman of the Speakers Forum in Nigeria; so he knows the rudiments of lawmaking and can never be involved in any arrangement that would see lawmakers sitting outside the hallowed chambers of the State House of Assembly to pass the State Budget.”
The party thanked Rt. Hon. A. Amaechree, the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, and other patriotic lawmakers in the state for ensuring that a minority group does not hold the state to ransom as desired by PDP leaders in Rivers State and their paymasters in Abuja.
The APC called on the police, which stopped the majority lawmakers from sitting in the state House of Assembly recently, to rise to the occasion and ensure that the rebel lawmakers do not gain access to the hallowed chambers to perpetrate the weirdest impeachment in history and one which, if permitted to happen, is capable of setting off a chain of events that could truncate Nigeria’s hard-earned democracy.