₦airaland Forum

fergie001:
1. They announced their defections on the floor of the RSHA.
https://www.nairaland.com/7937294/rivers-assembly-all-27-pro-wike#127424407

https://www.nairaland.com/7943931/rivers-crisis-met-constitutional-requirements#127531975

2. They swore to an affidavit on December 2023 that they have defected to the APC as a result of the internal divisions in the PDP.
An affidavit is a written statement or affirmation on oath before the Court.[
It is a written testimony or evidence in Court which lying on oath is perjury. (See Section 118 of the Criminal Code)

https://www.nairaland.com/8149356/rivers-assembly-crisis-affidavit-sworn#130877767

4. They tried to secretly withdraw that affidavit after realizing their folly;
https://www.nairaland.com/8254171/pro-wike-rivers-lawmakers-secretly-withdraw#132667420


The suit of defection has never been decided or tested before any Court since this saga.
Justice Donatus Okorowo (now in the Appeal Court) granted an ex-parte injunction on the suit but no judgement until today. Ex-partes always have a finite period.
The defection case as we speak is before a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt.


This is the issue.
What is the Supreme Court ruling on re-presentation of the 2024 budget?
None because there was neither any ruling nor judgement.
This was what the appellant wanted so that the Supreme Court does not make a pronouncement and the matter will continue to delay.
The Supreme Court on the request of the appellant, simply struck out the appeal.
Now, what did the Appeal Court say?
Amaewhule should receive the 2024 not 2025 budget.
The Court cannot overreach itself, it circumscribes itself to the matter before it.

Let me ask you, what do you think has held them back from going forward with the impeachment?
They know better.


Let me tell you, it is easier for Tinubu to order a State of Emergency than for this Senate to take over.
This is Rivers, not Ekiti and the Governor is been advised the reason why he has continuously refrained from violence (at least based on what he says, I don't know what he does inside).

Assembly members didn't do their jobs for four years curtsy Obaseki, what did the Senate do?

NB: Everything under Amaewhule was going well until the defection....
I will reference you to a decision by the full bench of the Supreme Court in Abegunde v Ondo House of Assembly in 2015.

A full bench of the Supreme Court of Nigeria is 7, any decision made by the full bench can only be upturned by another full bench of that Court.

Abegunde was a HoR member representing Akure N/S, he had issues and factions with them Gov Mimiko and he defected. Hear the Supreme Court:-

The Supreme Court said, you lose your seats immediately.

The CFRN says Shall i.e. mandatory

Acekidc4:
They should impeach him Asap🤨 i hate disloyal people💯

fergie001:
Our Senate has never impeached a president, it's a Governor especially when litigation is ongoing?

That's ridiculous. Ask yourself why Amaewhule and co haven't commenced impeachment proceedings, at least just starting.

I have said this before that the person who advised these guys to defect should be ostracised from that group. Fubara & co have no business on who wins or loses but to drag this case until the next cycle of election.

There is another case before the FHC in Port Harcourt which will most likely rule against the "27", the case now re-commences again and before you know it, its 2027.

Governance stops in August 2025, the rest is Primaries and election...

APCHaram:
There's no conflicting judgement.

Theres only conflicting interpretation coming from Fubara's camp

The Supreme court ruling was consistent with that of the High Court that ruled on behalf of the Plaintiff's .

In the course of that trial, Fubara's defense hinged on urging the court to dismiss the suit by claiming the plaintiffs were no longer members of the House of Assembly to which the Judge disagreed and asked Fubara to present evidence that the Legislators had lost their seats automatically owing to defecting to another party. Fubara could not provide proof in court and the judge then went on to entertain the suit by the lawmakers as being more than interested parties. The judge then ruled in favour of the 27 man faction.

The final ruling gave birth to 2 outcomes :.

1. Fubara illegality appropriated and spent Rivers state funds without legislative approval and oversight.

2. That the Plaintiffs remain valid members of the House .

APCHaram:
Well, the Supreme Court Ruling of yesterday has affirmed that the 27 law makers remain valid members of the Rivers state House of Assembly.

If there be any case ongoing, this ruling should put an end to such frivolity.

Mightyodi:
Op do you know the process of impeaching a governor at all. You think it as easy as typing write ups on nairaland. Explain how it will happen. Do you know the attorney general of Rivers state must concur to notice of impeaching from the legislative wing for the process to sail through. And currently, the state chief judge was appointed by Gov Fubara. How will impeachment work exactly. Except you are writing out of ignorance.
Have you read chapter 6 part 2 section section 188. You think it is a simple process abi

kingbee90:
All these Agbadorians sef.
Why not leave Oshogbo, come down to Rivers State and impeach Gov. Fubara by yourself?

I used to ask why you id1ots are interested in Rivers State matters until I figured it out.

Rivers State being a powerful state financially and politically as an opposition is a BIG threat to Amuda aka Bulaba's 2027 re-election and Mark my words, Rivers State as usual, will pull out the weight, form an alliance with other APC aggrieved members to sink APC in 2027.
Rivers State has always been a political workhorse since 1999 & has sponsored & influenced all presidential elections till date.

Rivers influenced 2015 election , 2023 elections and will still influence 2027 elections .

You Agbadorians should go and eat shit and die.

Acekidc4:
They should impeach him Asap🤨 i hate disloyal people💯

Acekidc4:
They should impeach him Asap🤨 i hate disloyal people💯

Gbadebo19:
There isn't any of those in play.

adekolaelect:
I smell childish in your comment . Intelligent people comment with evidence not that your way of insulting others as if that determined your intelligency . It is either Fubara make peace with those 27 members and manage his governance or he continues in his way and get impeached by those 27 members or the national assembly.

Hankim:
Enough of your incoherent gibberish, who will impeach him? it’s high time you and your people stop deceiving each other, Fubara will do 8 years, kiss the truth

APCHaram:
Fubara may repeat his stunt at the Supreme Court and resign rather than face impeachment.

He fought foolishly without using his brain.

I wonder why you guys are supporting this tyranny?
For the first time since Obi's dissatrous adminstration in Anambra, we have a House that is ready to tackle and check a tyrannical Tin god governor.

adekolaelect:
I smell childish in your comment . Intelligent people comment with evidence not that your way of insulting others as if that determined your intelligency . It is either Fubara make peace with those 27 members and manage his governance or he continues in his way and get impeached by those 27 members or the national assembly.

Gotocourt:
Not possible, tinubu dare not take that risk

NothingDoMe:
For Agbado media to be asking Fubara to make peace with the 27, simply means that APC has run of out of tenable options and are trying out a new strategy.

If you truly had the upper hand, you'd have used the hand by now instead of asking for peace in order to bring back the 27 to cripple the government from within.

This is my honest observation. 😁

Hankim:
Who will impeach him? Coward Afonjarians who lost Ilorin to few Fulanis from futa-jallon?

APCHaram:
I am not from Rivers and I am more bi-partisan when it comes to political issues because all the politicians and political parties are rogues (no exceptions including the Agulu fraudster).

But one thing is clear is that Fubara is a tyrannical despot.


It's either that or he is highly uninformed on how our democracy should operate.

The fact that this faction of Rivers state assembly is the first since 1999 to stand up against the excesses of these thieving governors who see themselves as Tin gods should naturally get real democrats on their side.

Fubara is your typical megalomaniac Nigerian Governor who sees himself as an Emperor.

How can 27 members be against you . Haba! Something is truly wrong somewhere .

Democracy is all about dialogue and negotiation and Fubara has shown he isn't cut out for such and that he mistakes his position as an elected executive to be equal to that of a supreme emperor.

He is mad as the idiotic Anarcho-Marxist obidient mob that foolishly supporting him.

franugo:
Fubara's constituents are solidly behind him. The 27 HOA members are simply acting out a script as directed by wike, nothing more than that. It's the same hold that Tinubu has over Lagos politicians that enabled him unseat a sitting governor whether he was doing well or not. The fact that majority of Rivers indigenes are behind fubara should paint a clear picture of the Issue at hand

BondRiv:
In a sane environment, the clueless neophyte called Fubara would have resigned long ago and thereafter face criminal charges in court. The dismissal of the case by the Supreme Court means that he has been operating without a budget. It's funny how simple issues are made to seem complicated in Nigeria. Even more embarrassing, was the reason put forward by the clowns with the governor, encapsulated in the words "overtaken by events". A display of foolishness and self-indictment.

Prior to the fear of impeachment, which spurred the criminal conspiracy by Fubara and his supporters that culminated in the destruction of the assembly complex, who was the speaker? Did that ever change?

Overnight, Edison Ehie, infamously declared himself a factional speaker. This was the genesis of all the dramas being acted in courts today, especially the Rivers State judiciary, where shameless members have allowed themselves to be used as reckless tools for lawlessness.

Now you have the clown Jumbo doing the same thing. Amaewhule has always been and remains the Speaker of the house. The significance of the dismissal of the case by the Supreme Court, aside the obvious one which is that there was no budget, is that Fubara can be prosecuted for those funds spent after he leaves office.

He has two options now: He can either retrace his steps by presenting subsequent budgets to the House presided over by Martin Amaewhule or continue breaking laws for which he will be prosecuted later. His impeachment proceedings ought to have commenced long ago.

APCHaram:
Those 27 members also have their constituents.

The desperate character here is Fubara who even demolished the mutibilion Naira State Assembly Complex all in a bid from preventing the House from sitting.

Is the above right in any way ?


They're all touts but wike is the biggest tout, he'd have done much worse than that, besides there's no evidence fubara demolished the building

APCHaram:
So because they are seeking legal means to reign in Fubara's tyranny this is a sign of weakness ?..


You see why your yeast is a lawless Hobbesian shithole .

They are using lawfare to treat Fubara's fck ups.

Fubara cup dey full with court rulings against him.

One day you will wake up to a Court order demanding he evacuate Government House immediately.

franugo:
Where's the judgement wherein supreme Court dismissed fubara's claims? Don't come here to spread misinformation

NothingDoMe:
I'm not a yesterner, you sharia oriented agbadorian. 😄

I repeat you are the ones asking Fubara to work with the 27. Stop asking and treat his fuckup.

APCHaram:
The judgement is readily available but we both know your stubborness will not allow you to read it.

By the way, Fubara was defending his decision to by pass the 27 man house on the basis that they had automatically vacated their seats by decamping . The court asked Fubara to provide proof of this which he couldn't .

APCHaram:
The judgement is readily available but we both know your stubborness will not allow you to read it.

By the way, Fubara was defending his decision to by pass the 27 man house on the basis that they had automatically vacated their seats by decamping . The court asked Fubara to provide proof of this which he couldn't .

franugo:
If you're talking about the Monday judgment by supreme Court, then you obviously didn't go through it in detail. That case was for 2024 budget presentation and was withdrawn by fubara via his lawyer as the 2024 budget had already been spent....Find attached

blacknp:
fergie001 please read.