Rivers Assembly Crises: Amaewhule Writes INEC To Fill Vacant Seats
The Rivers State House of Assembly led by the embattled Speaker, Martin Amaewhule has written a letter to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to fill the seats of four lawmakers loyal to Governor Sim Fubara that He had declared vacant.
Didactic Information Hut recalls that Amaewhule and his colleagues who are loyal to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, had during their session on Tuesday declared the seats of four lawmakers loyal to Gov Fubara vacant.
Amaewhule had during the session also threatened to write to INEC to conduct fresh elections to fill the vacant seats.
In an earlier similar development, Rt Hon Edison Ehie, the then Speaker loyal to Gov Fubara had declared the seats of Amaewhule and Colleagues vacant for defecting to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
But Amaewhule in a twist of plans had denied their defection to the APC and now claim to be members of the PDP just to retain their seats.
In the letter dated 15th October, 2024, Amaewhule urged INEC to conduct fresh elections to fill the vacant seats within 90 days.
Meanwhile, the Rt Hon Victor Oko-Jumbo faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly has called on Nigerians to disregard the so-called declaration of legitimate lawmakers’ seats vacant by Martin Amaewhule.
Oko-Jumbo in a press statement personally signed by Him recalled that following the defection of Martin Amaewhule and 24 others on 11th December, 2023, the then Speaker, Edison Ehie had declared their seats vacant on 13th December, 2023.
He reiterated the earlier call on INEC to conduct elections to fill the vacant seats of Amaewhule and his loyalists.
Didactic Information Hut reports that the political crises between Gov Fubara and his godfather, Nyesom Wike had thrown the oil-richstate into lingering political turbulence.
