APC’s Impeachment Threat, Invitation To Anarchy—Rivers Info Commissioner

The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr Joe Johnson,  and the former organising secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Andoni Local Government Area (ANOLGA), Elder Blessing Tiko have faulted the call for the impeachment of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
The duo who spoke at different fora in Port Harcourt described the call for the impeachment of Governor Fubara by the caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Mr Tony Okocha, as an invitation to anarchy.
On his part, Mr Johnson said, in an interview with a radio station in Port Harcourt, that members of The Rivers State House of Assembly also lacked the legitimacy to continue to perform legislative duties having defected from their former party.
While quoting a section of the 1999 Constitution, he said the country’s supreme rule book is specific about defection of members of the House of Assembly, adding that the lawmakers by the constitution have no legal power to legislate for the state.
Speaking on the issue of local government election, the Commissioner said that the purported agreement with the president does not urge the Governor to hold local government elections, adding that the agreement only warned against dissolution of local government councils and setting up of caretaker committees.
He said the Governor has not even contemplated dissolving the elected local government council executives and the setting up of caretaker committees.
The Commissioner also argued that there is no way the Governor can represent a budget already passed by a validly constituted House of Assembly.
According to him, the Assembly that passed the budget was legally recognised by law, adding that there was no way a budget that is now an Act of the state Assembly can be represented.
Also speaking, a former organising secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Andoni Local Government Area, Elder Blessing Tiko, said in the eyes of the law, the 27 members of the House of Assembly were no longer relevant, having defected to the APC, adding that whatever they were doing was dead on arrival.
He urged them to allow the Governor to govern his people.
“Anyone who throws stone in the market will not know whom the stone will touch, therefore, they should not be throwing stones that will hunt them at last or in the nearest future”, he said.
Elder Tiko challenged Mr Okocha to carry out his threat, if he is capable.
He urged the Governor not to be distracted as God and Rivers people were solidly behind him.