He spoke when a delegation of Rivers State Caucus in the 10th National Assembly visited him on Thursday.
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The PDP-GF, comprising Governors elected on the platform of PDP, said this in a statement Thursday by its Director-General, Hon CID Maduabum in Abuja.
Moves by 24 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly to impeach the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, resulted in turbulence in the state on Monday, as the governor’s loyalists stormed the assembly complex in protest against the plot.
The youth who wanted to force their way into the residence were said to be demanding Amaewhule’s eviction, claiming that he is no longer the Speaker.
The Forum made the call in a statement by its Director-General, Fubara Dagogo Tuesday in Abuja.
A statement from the office of the state Chairman of the PDP, Bro Felix Obuah, and signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Jerry Needam, said no amount of propaganda employed by the All Progressives Congress can stand and or rewrite the overwhelming statement of the election of the governor-elect, Barrister Nyesom Wike, his deputy and all the victorious PDP House of Assembly candidates by the Rivers State people in the April 11 elections adjudged by even independent observers as very fair and credible
This information was contained in a statement issued by CSP Frank Mba, the Force Public Relations Officer, in Abuja on Wednesday
“We are all aware that the signs emerging from the polity today are very disappointing
The PDP said Tinubu’s action was simply to fuel political crisis in Rivers State
The Judge, Justice Latan Nyordee, said the plea of the accused could be taken on the ground that he had been properly arraigned before court
The statement said: “Let us call a spade a spade: What is happening in Rivers State is not normal. What is normal in five members of a 32-strong house seeking to remove the Speaker supported by the remaining members? What is normal in the Police Commissioner of a state labelling the state’s Governor a dictator and supporting renegade lawmakers to stir trouble? What is normal in hired thugs stoning visiting Governors from another part of the country?
He stated that the actions of the lawmakers are unpatriotic and called on the appropriate authorities to sanction all those found culpable accordingly to the law
The party wondered why the Rivers State Police Commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu, who provided cover for the five renegade lawmakers to attack the House while failing to provide security for
the House to sit, and the leader of the renegade lawmakers, Evans Bipi, who allegedly started the crisis in the House by punching Lloyd and the Speaker of the House on the face, were not invited along with the others
Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in Beijing, China on Thursday
“Let us reduce power at the centre and then dissolve some of the responsibilities down to the federating unit and to the local government
The statement said Mbu even before now had show bias in the handling of issues relating to the state Governor, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi
He said that the crisis had taken a destructive dimension, adding that the fracas was an indication that the current CP in Rivers State, Joseph Mbu, was no longer able to control the situation