ACN demands Rivers Speaker’s resignation
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Africcon Report: ACN demands Rivers Speaker’s resignation
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Rivers State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has asked the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Mr. Otelemaba Amachree, to resign from his position as a result of his failure to manage the current crisis affecting the House.
The ACN also demanded the resignation of the Speaker following the House of Assembly’s controversial decision to suspend the chairman and councilors of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.
In a statement by its publicity secretary in the state, Mr. Jerry Needam, the ACN expressed disappointment at the actions of the Speaker.
The party also asked security agents to arrest the Speaker for alleging plan to kill Governor Rotimi Amaechi. It described the handling of the House of Assembly affairs by Amachree as a display of immaturity.
The ACN said the House under Amachree’s leadership ought to have served as a proctor to lawmakers whose rights had been infringed upon and members of the public that were denied justice and fair hearing.
The party added that its call for the resignation of the Speaker was also based on the disclosure by some lawmakers that Amachree had rolled out laws that would further impoverish the state and the people.
The ACN statement read in part, “It is also an incontrovertible fact that the Rivers State House of Assembly is at the whims and caprices, or better put, Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s rubber stamp, leaving the people who voted for them helpless and defenceless.
“One would have expected a neutral and convincingly objective action taken by the Rivers State House of Assembly in dealing with the crisis in the leadership of the PDP.
“We hereby call on the Inspector General of Police, the Director-General, State Security Service and all relevant security agencies in the country to arrest and interrogate the Speaker over spurious allegations of plans to release notable robbery and kidnap kingpins from detention to carry out mayhem on government officials, innocent citizens and residents of the state and plot to kill the Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi.”
Meanwhile, the political crisis rocking the Rivers State Peoples Democratic took a fresh dimension on Wednesday when hundreds of women marched to the State Police Command to protest against the calls for the sacking of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu.
The protest came barely 24 hours after another group of women had trooped to the Government House in Port Harcourt demanding Mbu’s sacking over his alleged role in the crisis in the state PDP.
While Tuesdays protest was in support of the pro-Rotimi Amaechi faction of the PDP, Wednesday’s protest was in solidarity to the Minister of State for Education and arch rival of the governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike.
The protesters, who were led by Mrs. Victoria Allison, cautioned that Mbu should be allowed to do his job, adding that the state police commissioner had shown himself as a thoroughbred police officer.
“Government has no right to remove the state Commissioner of Police. Rivers State belongs to all of us and we believe in justice and all we want is justice,” she said.
