‘Fubara Is a Threat to Democracy’ — Speaker Amaewhule Barks During Impeachment Proceedings
Rivers State House of Assembly initiated formal impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and Deputy Governor Ngozi Odu on Thursday, January 8, 2026, intensifying the state's political crisis. In a plenary session chaired by Speaker Martins Amaewhule, Majority Leader Major Jack tabled a notice of gross misconduct against Fubara, supported by 26 lawmakers. The allegations, under Section 188 of the 1999 Constitution, cite financial recklessness and legislative obstruction—including failure to submit budget documents, unauthorized expenditures, diversion of House and Service Commission funds, demolition of the Assembly complex, and disregard for financial autonomy court orders.
Rivers Assembly Speaker, Martins Amaewhule
Clearly so! Fubara has serially raped the Nigerian Constitution violating its provisions with impunity! Fubara has been spending the State Funds without an Appropriation Law in place. Fubara unlawfully and in persecuting the House of Assembly demolished The Rivers State House of Assembly obviously to destabilise them from meeting to impeach him. He is a tyrant! He denies the House of Assembly of funds. Fubara is an Executive Rogue and a serial enemy of the Constitution and democracy. After his impeachment he should be tried and sent to prison if found guilty for demolishing the Rivers State House of Assembly. Fubara is one personality who will be quiet but has enough in the inside of him to kill!
jubrilELsudan: INDEED WHAT GOD CANNOT DO DOES NOT EXIST!
THIS DRAMA IS SO SWEET.
YOU ALL SHOULD WATCH HOW WIKE WILL FIGHT EVERYONE IN APC INCLUDING THUBV LIKE A WOUNDED LION CAUSE RIGHT NOW HE IS A POLITICAL slowpoke
HE CAN'T GO BACK TO PDP....HE CAN'T JOIN APC....HE CAN'T JOIN ADC AND MOST OF ALL FUBARA HAS BECOME BY DEFAULT THE GODFATHER IN RIVERS STATE SINCE HE JOINED APC AND TINUBU IS SUPPORTING AND USING FUBARA NOW INSTEAD OF WIKE
Remember to come back here after the 2027 elections and repeat all you just posted. You are reading the board wrongly! Tinubu will toy with Wike to his own peril! Fubara and his deputy will be impeached. By Section 191(2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (CFRN 99 as amended) if both the Governor and Deputy Governor are removed from office The Speaker, as provided by the Constitution will act as Governor for three months during which a new gubernatorial election is conducted to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term of office i.e. 2027. With the Speaker managing the N600 billion and the House of Assembly cooperating with him It is a forgone conclusion who wins the Gubernatorial Election to replace Fubara. It remains to be seen how wrong I am in my thought projection on the matter.
Wrong! Wike said no such thing! What he said must refer to backroom political manoeuvres. The case they are talking about is a more recent matter. Sahara Reporters plying yellow journalism as usual. The video containing what Wike said is freely available on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuGGTcF3zIc The Rivers State House of Assembly has initiated impeachment proceedings against Governor Sim Fubara and his deputy, Professor Ngozi Odu.
Things cannot be worse for Fubara. The Supreme court on record said - "Fubara is a despot." The Court of Appeal on record in Fubara's Case said - "A joke taken too far." The Federal High Court on record in Fubara's Case said - "A tyrant." Those pushing Fubara are about to get him over the cliff! Strictly speaking Fubara deserves to be impeached especially considering his refusal to present the Budget to the House of Assembly for passage into Law before spending the funds belonging to the State.
Rivers state governor, Sim Fubara supporters mock FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike in new song, “Wike oh, Na Minister u be oh, you no be God, Wike oh, Na Minister u be oh, Na Fubara be governor."
Things cannot be worse for Fubara. The Supreme court on record said - "Fubara is a despot." The Court of Appeal on record in Fubara's Case said - "A joke taken too far." The Federal High Court on record in Fubara's Case said - "A tyrant." Those pushing Fubara are about to get him over the cliff! Strictly speaking Fubara deserves to be impeached especially considering his refusal to present the Budget to the House of Assembly for passage into Law before spending the funds belonging to the State. Fubara is an Executive roughneck!
As for his spat with Wike, Fubara was unwise to have allowed folks who have issues with Wike to use him to fight a proxy war against Wike.
Flowing from the above Fubara demolished the Rivers State House of Assembly for which he should be prosecuted after he loses immunity as Governor. Fubara has acted in a criminal manner. But wait a minute, Fubara looks gentle and harmless!!
Dalohad: The Wike I know is ready to forge evidence and set up anybody he feels is his enemy.. He is that desperate and has ethics in his brand of politics.
I am not fooled. I do not believe those guys are guilty.
Has it occurred to you that a Wike loyalist might be around the said pastor and Danagogo feeding Wike info about the plot as it got hatched🧐🧐. All DSS need do is obtain the requisite court order and request from the network provider the relevant call logs and voice and sms details. Even WhatsApp that assures you its calls and chats are encrypted can be derobed by software capable enough to de-encryrpt things on your phone when it is subjected to forensic analysis by folks who know the job well!
WantsandMore: Our phones are being tapped. Where’s our fundamental human right to privacy ?
I guess the suggested defence is that the evidence was improperly obtained or unlawfully "renditioned". Nnamdi Kanu's friend should be able to help out here.
Must politicking come to this!🧐. The race to access the public till and loot same is at the root of the desperation for elective office by many Nigerian politicians.
Forest Guard still loading. These guys want to destroy Nigeria. They know that no tourist or anyone who loves his life will dare visit the National park anymore. Is the FG not supposed to know that with the dislodgment at Sokoto the guys will move South of Nigeria🧐🧐🧐
They cannot be seriously be "hunting" for the truck driver! For what offence! he simply parked on the shoulder which right he has. he can even park on the shoulder to eat in his vehicle! No one is legally permitted to overtake on the shoulder where the truck driver parked!!
Needless comment. He pretends not to know the best and most effective way to handle the matter. At a very high level get the DSS and NSA involved and leave the rest to them!!!
kushercain: I got this puppy recently. I wasn't around so I had a family member arrange everything. The delivery (from Abuja) and feeding it for like 2 months till I came back.
I told her to get a German Shepherd but when I came back I could tell it wasn't a German Shepherd. I automatically thought it was an Alsatian.
The dog is so energetic, like he cannot rest for a second except when I lock it in the cage. It likes to play and my other dog (Eskimo) avoids him like discrimination levels lol.
Anyway he's about 4 months now and i believed he was an Alsatian, till this morning I released him in the compound and he ran around for like an hour (I kid you not)
I asked chat gpt what I can do to make him calm down and posted his picture only for chat gpt to tell me he's a Belgian Malinois I.e those dogs used for herding sheep, races etc.
I checked the pictures online and the resemblance is quite uncanny. But I'm not really an expert on dog breeds.
So to the experts in the house, please what breed is this dog?
I know I will sound funny but it looks like ekuke the local dog hunters use when they go hunting! May be because I am a local person hoping to travel someday!!
9jatriot: Fubara thinks he is wise.Unstable elements like him should stay in their previous party. I am glad APC is beginning to come to their sense.
Fubara comes across as a treacherous, weak, and sycophantic individual. There’s just something about him that reeks of deceit. With Wike, for all his antics, you at least know where you stand.
Fubara, on the other hand, seems like a fickle-minded opportunist, willing to do anything to cling to power. He plays the role of a sycophant to get what he wants, only to turn his back once his goals are met.
During the campaign, he trailed Wike like a puppet, only to betray him shortly after assuming power. He went as far as demolishing the House of Assembly building in his lust for control and is even suspected of being involved in pipeline sabotage to maintain his grip on power. Such desperation disqualifies him from public office and the responsibility of leadership.
Reports suggest that, for the sake of peace, he was advised to abandon his second-term ambition—and he agreed. He was seen following Wike around during his ordeal, seemingly compliant. He didn’t have to agree; he could have made his case right then to continue his term, but he chose to accept the terms presented.
Yet, the moment he returned to office, he suddenly had the "brilliant" idea to join the APC—not because the president compelled him, but because he sees it as a springboard to regain power. Once again, he’s playing the fool, pretending loyalty to the APC until he secures what he wants.
Personally, I neither like nor trust individuals like him. He isn’t the first governor to turn against his former benefactor, but he’s the only one who makes such a spectacle of it. Even now, the governors of Kaduna and Kano have parted ways with their benefactors, yet they handle it without the same drama.
The APC needs to tread carefully with someone like Fubara. He isn’t joining the party out of a commitment to good governance or loyalty to the APC. If anything, he has proven himself untrustworthy and lacking in wisdom, both in his actions and his timing. They should learn from their experience with Obaseki. Once treacherous, always treacherous.
If I had to choose between Wike and Fubara, I’d trust Wike—flaws and all—any day. At least with Wike, you know what you’re getting.
Does he not have some work he does outside politics such that he goes back to his work while they all work at restoring PDP then he comes back to contest. Just thinking!
yarimo: Ugochinyere you must vacate your seat as member house of representatives for decamping to another party. INEC please take notes. Ugochinyere is no longer member of the national assembly
But there is palaver in the leadership PDP that is widely known to have two factions viz- amala faction and agreement is agreement faction!
fergie001: The member representing Ideato North/South Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, Ikenga Ugochinyere has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Action Peoples Party (APP)
The noisemaker has jumped on another SPV! (Special Purpose Vehicle).
Truthissupreme: No free ticket for anyone so he should contest
However, him and abure we all know na Wike Dem dey work for now
Datti is a principled person very much unlike Peter Obi. Datti will never do that!! If I am inclined towards partisan politics I would rather do a Datti than an unprincipled and snaky Peter Obi whose desperation to be President knows no boundaries!
Great! The more the merrier!! He will see that theIgbo support LP just because Peter Obi is an Igbo man. What Nigeria needs is not ethnic politics but the best hand for the job. Datti try.
lailo: This is at Jonathan's backyard where some people are hoping to use him as PDP flagbearer. The kind beating una go chop go pass wetin dem dey use flog cow from Sokoto reach Lagos Na obidients I pity pass
You overestimate the political worth and weight of Jonathan.
brain54: Atiku is the most qualified to pick the ticket...
It would be absurd if he steps down for any of the candidates vieing for the ticket.
Obi just came in and shouldn't expect an automatic ticket. He should go to the back of the queue and wait.
He is the least qualified and Should be ready to learn the ropes!
Peter Obi is a much younger candidate. It is expected that he will show some respect to the much older, richer and more politically exposed Abubakar Atiku.