Rivers Assembly Recalls 3 Suspended Lawmakers

The Rivers State House of Assembly yesterday recalled three members loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara.

The recalled lawmakers are Hon. Timothy Oruibienimigha, Hon. Victor Oko-Jumbo, and Hon. Sokari Goodboy Sokari, representing Opobo/Nkoro Constituency, Bonny Constituency, and Ahoada West Constituency respectively.

The improvement, LEADERSHIP gathered, was a part of the result of the assembly held between Fubara and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, in addition to their loyalists on the governor’s personal residence in Port Harcourt on Sunday.

Our correspondent learnt that the choice was reached following letters of enchantment despatched to the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Martin Chike Amaewhule, by the trio.

The House had, throughout its 68th Legislative Sitting of the Fourth Session of the Tenth Assembly on Monday, rescinded its earlier choice declaring their seats vacant.

In their separate letters of enchantment learn by the Speaker at plenary, the trio expressed deep-seated apologies to the House, claiming that they did not resume sitting with their colleagues as a result of there was no correspondence informing them that their suspension of thirtieth October, 2023 was lifted on twentieth December, 2023, after the presidential intervention.

Debating the acceptability or in any other case of the enchantment, members spoke in favour of the plea and urged the House to rescind the sooner choice.

Commenting on the letters and elaborating on the submissions of members, the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Amaewhule, emphasised that no matter the emotion-laden tenor of their letters of enchantment, the purpose to notice is that investigation has proven that they might not have obtained the correspondence as claimed.

He said that the legislation doesn’t feast on emotion, neither does the legislation see the rotund face of the wealthy nor the angular face of the poor, however sees solely justice.

When the Speaker put the query on rescinding the sooner choice, members voted within the affirmative, expressing willingness to see their colleagues be part of them to talk for his or her varied constituencies.

Recall that within the wake of the political disaster that engulfed the state, significantly the House of Assembly, 4 members of the House have been suspended on the 84th Legislative Sitting of the First Session of the Tenth Assembly on October 30, 2023; and following the presidential parley of 18th December, 2023, the suspension was lifted on twentieth December, 2023 on the 89th Legislative Sitting of the First Session.

However, following the continued failure or refusal of the trio to attend and take part in legislative sittings and actions of the Assembly for no simply trigger, the House at its 56th Legislative Sitting of the Second Session of the Tenth

Assembly, on fifteenth October, 2024, in compliance with Section 109(1)(e) and (f), and (2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, resolved to declare their seats vacant and accordingly notified the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct elections to fill the vacant seats.

Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, appears to have grow to be the gorgeous bride of the Rainbow Coalition within the state forward of the 2027 normal election.

LEADERSHIP noticed that Fubara’s personal residence in GRA Phase 2, Port Harcourt, has all of a sudden grow to be a haven for closed-door conferences of political gladiators forward of the final election.

The latest conferences, held within the final two Sundays, have been between loyalists of the governor and the founding father of the Rainbow Coalition and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike.

The two conferences have been attended by loyalists of each the governor and the minister, respectively, together with the previous Chief of Staff, Rt. Hon. Edison Ehie.

Also in attendance have been former consultant of Rivers East Senatorial District, Senator George Sekibo, and the Chairman of the Rainbow Coalition Reconciliation Committee, Senator Magnus Abe.

Others have been the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Martins Amaewhule, and the All Progressives Congress (APC) member representing Port Harcourt Federal Constituency 2, Hon. Kingsley Chinda.

Also in attendance have been former Attorney General of Rivers State, Chief Adokiye Amiesimaka; former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) within the state, Hon. Chukwuemeka Aaron, and different stakeholders.

Speaking to LEADERSHIP on the event, a former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ogbonna Nwuke, stated each effort of the Rainbow Coalition was aimed toward returning the state to peace.

Nwuke stated: “I believe we ought to be speaking about peace returning to Rivers State. Honestly, we’re one political household. There might have been disagreements. But it exhibits you that visibly, there’s a deliberate effort on all sides to guarantee that understanding, collaboration and cooperation returns to the fold.

“Now, whether or not you see that as Fubara changing into probably the most lovely bride, is one perspective of it. But additionally, you will recall that Fubara has been saying that no worth is simply too excessive to pay for peace.

“It signifies that all alongside, he believes within the peace course of. And now that peace is right here and all helps have collapsed into one, the implication is that everybody, together with the governor, who can be a member of the Rainbow Coalition — and also you additionally know that it doesn’t matter what, you can’t ignore the presence of a governor.

“Fubara is an asset to the Rainbow Coalition and the minister (Wike), who’s a member of the Federal Executive Council, can be an asset to the Rainbow Coalition.

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