Chief Felix Obuah, Chairman of the rival faction, on August 26 announced the expulsion of 14 commissioners and senior functionaries of Ameachi’s administration for failing to appear before the committee
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He expressed shock at the sudden withdrawal of soldiers and the APC attached to Government House, saying that security commanders in the state had not held meetings with him for two months
Aleruchi Cookey-Gam, Administrator of the Greater Port Harcourt City Development Authority, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Wednesday
According to available information, policemen were alleged to have also joined in the attack on the Government House
Initially, I didn’t see the entertainment in the latest headline-grabber, which played out within the walls of highly fortified and expansive Presidential Villa, so I went to bed that night with the memory of a witty spectacle I witnessed forenoon
Addressing newsmen at the party’s secretariat in Minna, the state capital, the Publicity Secretary, Hassan Saba, said after the Expanded State Executive Council meeting of the party, which was held on Wednesday, it was decided that it should not act on the rumour that some people were pushing for the impeachment of Aliyu
The NWC said this was despite the fact that the Rivers State Executive Committee of the party had advised Amaechi to rescind the decision
Obinna’s father, Prince Emma Anyanwu, a chieftain of the PDP, had called on Amaechi to resign following the political crisis in Rivers State
The Rivers Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph, had said the premise was sealed following intelligence information that some thugs were planning to burn it
That Amaechi is waging a political war at the national level against the Presidency, that was alleged in some quarters to be the brain behind the conception and birth of the “Emergency” Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum that enthroned Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State as its Czar, with the ultimate aim of wresting the control or headship of the inclusive Nigerian Governors’ Forum from Governor Amaechi, is no longer news to many who have been following closely the tense political wave in Rivers State and, by extension, Nigeria, with particular reference to the Presidency
The statement, signed by Joe Obi, the Special Adviser on Media to the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, stated that Amaechi also fraudulently used Claverton Helicopters name to fly the aircraft in Nigeria
They were playing opposition among themselves with one faction rising
against the other, as Nigerians had seen in the judiciary-imposed
Felix Obuah-led faction of the PDP in Rivers State which suspended on
Monday April 29, 27 members of the state’s House of Assembly elected
on the podium of the party, and gave Governor Chibuike Amaechi 48
hours to explain why a jet belonging to the Rivers State Government was purportedly bearing the name of a US bank in its registration credentials
He said having earlier been appreciated by reputable media organisations such as Thisday, Independent, Leadership and others, Amaechi has shown consistency in the delivery of democratic dividends to the people of the state
The word ‘Beautyful’ is figuratively used in this context to depict a nascent African democracy that buckles under the full weight of ravenous and greedy political class, whose only guiding principles was the degeneration of level of governance where mediocrity and iniquity rules