A legal practitioner and public affairs analyst, Liborous Oshoma, has said the alleged breach of an agreement between Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, should not serve as grounds for impeachment
Oshoma stated this on Saturday in an interview.
He also said there is no legal provision empowering the court to stop an act of serving an impeachment notice to a governor.
The lawyer sad: “If you remember what led to the declaration of a state of emergency in the state in March last year was a breach of that same agreement.
“You remember when they went to the president, an agreement was written, signed, and it was authenticated by the president as an executive order.
“So when the governor got back, his associates and advisors told him that an executive order cannot direct him. And so that led to the breakdown of that agreement. And you hear Wike shouting agreement is disagreement.
“Depending on what that agreement is because for example the law cannot enforce an illegal agreement. If that agreement requests the governor to co-join or co-assent to the budget with Wike who is not a governor of the state that agreement is clearly illegal.
“To a larger scale also, I think some
provisions of that agreement had also been executed. If you look at the political structure of Rivers state, the Wike’s faction of the APC is the one that is recognized by the National Working Committee. The local government chairmen in the local government election conducted, almost all of them are loyal to Wike.”
