The Convener of the Pan Niger Delta Discussion board, Chief Edwin Clark, has insisted that the previous Speaker of the Rivers State Home of Meeting, Martins Amaewhule, and 27 different pro-Wike lawmakers have misplaced their seats within the Home of Meeting attributable to their defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress.
In a press release launched on Monday, the elder statesman argued that the lawmakers had dedicated perjury by claiming to be members of the Peoples Democratic Get together in a single court docket doc and denying their defection in a separate doc.
He defined that following the lawmakers’ defection on December 11, 2023, Amaewhule and the 27 others did not declare their defection to Justice Omotosho in a go well with towards the management of the Nationwide Meeting. This motion, Clark stated, brought about their go well with in court docket to die a pure demise from that date till as we speak.
The lawmakers later instituted one other case towards the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) and different our bodies earlier than Justice Donatus Okorowo on December 13, 2024, the place they admitted in paragraph 9 that they defected to the APC “due to issues or varied disagreements within the PDP.”
Clark argued that, as a result of conflicting positions within the separate fits, the lawmakers had dedicated perjury and had thus misplaced their seats within the Rivers State Home of Meeting.
“Now that the previous Speaker of the Rivers State Home of Meeting, Martins Amaewhule, and his 27 colleagues have confirmed in a court docket of legislation that they defected from the PDP to the APC, they’ve robotically misplaced their seats as of December 11, 2023, and are subsequently disqualified from bringing any court docket motion on behalf of the Rivers State Home of Meeting and its members,” he stated.
“Not disclosing their defection to Justice Omotosho’s court docket reveals clearly that the case in Justice Omotosho’s court docket is null and void and of no impact. Due to this fact, the judgment allegedly given by Justice Omotosho in go well with no: FHC/ABJ/1613/2023 is null and void, and it was a judgment obtained by fraud.”
“Equally, the three-man panel that sat on Justice Omotosho’s case didn’t preside over any legitimate judgment to be reviewed or supervised by the Court docket of Enchantment, as a result of the case was useless way back. Due to this fact, they resorted to utilizing pointless and insulting language towards the Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, which is tactless and uncalled for,” he added.
Clark additionally alleged that the FCT Minister and the lawmakers had been doing every thing attainable to undermine Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, including that President Tinubu had did not name Wike to order. He criticised Wike for having no respect for the Structure, stating that Nigerians would in the future ask the President why he allowed the Minister to breach the Structure on a number of events.
“He (Wike) desires to carry down the federal government of Siminalayi Fubara in any respect prices and with out justification. All people in Nigeria heard him threatening the federal government of Siminalayi Fubara, an harmless governor, and the impression is being on condition that some individuals are above the legislation, together with the previous Speaker of the Rivers State Home of Meeting, Martins Amaewhule, and his 27 colleagues.”
“Mr. President has been known as a number of instances to name his Minister to order as a result of a Minister can’t disobey the Structure of Nigeria, but Mr. President appears to be like on.”
“We have now respectfully appealed to President Bola Tinubu on a number of events to name Nyesom Wike to order or forestall him from breaching the Structure of Nigeria, however sadly, Mr. President has failed to hold out his responsibility because the primary citizen of this nation.”
“Nyesom Wike, who’s a serving Minister in President Bola Tinubu’s authorities, has no regard or respect for the Structure of Nigeria. Mr. President might in the future be requested by patriotic Nigerians why he allowed Nyesom Wike to breach the Structure of Nigeria on a number of events,” the assertion said.