Archive March 17, 2025

The State House of Assembly is accused of stifling Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s efforts to put the Supreme Court’s decision into effect in the state’s political crisis by the Executive Arm of the Rivers State Government.

In response to remarks made by Enemi Alabo-George, the chairman of the House of Assembly Committee on Information, who claimed Fubara had stifled the process, the Commissioner for Information, Joe Johnson, made this statement on Monday.

Despite numerous attempts, Johnson claimed that the Assembly has consistently rejected correspondence from the governor.

He cited video evidence that the lawmakers purposefully ignored the government’s efforts to deliver official documents.

Johnson added that some of these correspondences had been published in national newspapers.

He explained that the Assembly never received the documents, so the government was unable to provide acknowledgment copies of the letters Alabo-George had challenged.

Read more about Fubara, Deputy, being accused of gross misconduct by Rivers Assembly members.

The commissioner claimed that the executive branch had not yet received any correspondence from the State Assembly in response to the most recent allegations of gross misconduct against the governor and his deputy.

He reiterated that Fubara has always fought for peace and that it has upheld a court’s order directing local government leaders to become the head of local government administrations.

He claimed that the governor also indicated an interest in putting the rest of the apex bank’s directives into practice as soon as the judgment’s Certified True Copy is available.

He claimed that the Assembly issued ultimatums to the governor and the state electoral commission in response to the Assembly’s hostility.

He claimed that legal experts had also questioned its legitimacy and that this action was part of a deliberate plan to cause chaos.

Johnson also criticized the Assembly’s recent request for a Chief Judge’s investigation, claiming that the Assembly’s recent actions demonstrated that the state wasn’t interested in their priorities.

The State House of Assembly has officially served a notice of alleged misconduct against Governor, which has reached a boiling point in Rivers State. Effectively, Prof. Ngozi Odu and Senator Siminalayi Fubara sparked the impeachment process.

The lawmakers assert that their decision is in line with the Nigerian Constitution, according to a notice obtained from the Assembly on Monday.

According to the notice, the action was “in accordance with Section 188 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and other existing laws.”

The notice supports rumors that Governor. Following a Supreme Court decision that approved the rights of 27 lawmakers to his estranged successor, former governor, Fubara may be impeached. Nyesom Wike .

According to Persecondnews, Wike stated in a press conference on March 12 that if found guilty of misconduct, Fubara should be subject to impeachment in accordance with the law.

He asserted that politics is not a game. Let them impeach him if they have done something against him. It is not a crime.

Gov. is brought up by Persecondnews. Since Fubara took office, Wike and his predecessor have been at odds with one another.

Wike claims that Fubara violated their agreement, which was brokered by President Bola Tinubu, while Fubara alleges that Wike seeks to control the state’s resources.

After the PDP defectors to the All Progressives Congress (APC), 27 Wike-backed lawmakers left the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in December 2023, and the crisis grew to the point where Fubara stopped working with them.

On December 13, 2023, he gave the House’s 2024 budget to a group led by Edison Ehie.

The Supreme Court ordered the Martins Amaewhule-led House faction and other elected members to resume their legislative duties immediately and without any delay on February 28 after much legal back-and-forth.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has welcomed a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governor in Lagos Jandor. &nbsp,

In a press conference in Lagos on Monday, just weeks after he left the PDP, Jandor, who is known as Abdul-Azeez Adediran, made the announcement. &nbsp,

He claimed that it was important to join a political party that values success over who is cast on the ballot.

He stated, “We have made the decision to return to the APC, the All Progressives Congress.”

There is a Yoruba adage that states, “If a woman hasn’t tried two husbands, she would not know which one is better,” Jandor continued, “Before you are quick to remind me of the reasons why I dumped APC.”

The politician had earlier abandoned the PDP on March 3, 2025 because some of the party’s leaders in Lagos State’s leadership engaged in what he perceived as anti-party activities.