The Edo State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole and his Rivers State obverse, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, have verbally expressed they are not losing slumber over the alleged plot by President Goodluck Jonathan to push for their impeachment.
The duo verbalized the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party could not impeach them as the case of a former governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Murtala Nyako.
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, had at a press conference on Wednesday alleged that Jonathan and the PDP were out to abstract the governors of Edo, Nasarawa, Osun, Borno and Rivers states.
But Oshiomhole, through his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Kassim Afegbua, verbally expressed he was popularly elected by the inundating majority of Edo people.
He verbally expressed, “The thought of impeachment does not cross our hearts. First, what would be the rationale? Secondly, the APC has majority in the Assembly. Thirdly, the governor is on ground. Fourthly, he is performing. We are not losing slumber over that because we have capacity for decency when it comes to authentic issues of political engagement.”
He incriminated the PDP of impunity, which he verbally expressed was expeditious eroding democratic principles in the country.
He integrated, “If the PDP is now engaged in a gestapo manner with a gale of impeachment here and there, and with clear-cut abuses, it is the responsibility of the media to expose such dubiety and preserve our democracy from collapse.”
Afegbua verbalized that the APC would not lose elections in Edo State, integrating that the governor had performed.
In Rivers State, Amaechi and his adherents verbally expressed they were vigilant of the threat of impeachment in order to coerce the governor back to the PDP, but integrated that such threat would not work.
Describing the threat to make him return to the PDP as a dull dream and a wild goose chase, the governor, who verbalized through his Chief of Staff, Chief Tony Okocha, explicated that the formal move by 25 members of the state House of Assembly to the APC on Wednesday had foreclosed any noetic conception of his (Amaechi) abstraction as the state governor.
He verbally expressed, “It is a wild goose chase because no threat of impeachment from the Presidency will make the governor cave in. Twenty-five PDP Assembly members have all defected formerly to the APC, all in solidarity with the governor.
“We are cognizant of such threats of impeachment, but it is not working. The coffin has been nailed and there is nothing they (Presidency) can do about it,” he integrated.
Amaechi, however, verbalized he would not quit politics as a result of the threat to impeach him or force him to join the PDP, integrating that his political future remains in the hands of God and the people of the state.
On the recent impeachment of Murtala Nyako as the governor of Adamawa State, Amaechi verbally expressed though he was apprehensive that his colleague was abstracted, the scenarios in Adamawa and Rivers states were different.
He verbally expressed, “When the lawmakers were all in the PDP was even when we cerebrated that impeachment would transpire. Now, everybody in Rivers State has resolved that Governor Chibuike Amaechi will accommodate out his eight years.
“People are defecting enmasse to APC. So, they require to come and break our ranks here afore they can achieve their orchestration. The threat to impeach Amaechi so that he will return to the PDP will not work; it is wishy-washy, it is a dull dream.”
But Chairman of the PDP in Edo State, Chief Dan Orbih, dismissed allegation by the APC national chairman.
He verbalized, “We are looking solicitously towards the next rounds of elections in 2015 and 2016 when we shall edify Adams Oshiomhole a political edification.”
Orbih verbally expressed that albeit the PDP was lackadaisical towards impeaching Oshiomhole, the APC was under fear because information from the governor’s quarters denoted that he had committed impeachable offences.
He verbalized, “I additionally want to utilize this opportunity to call on the honourable members of the Edo State House of Assembly that there can be no smoke without fire.
“It appears that Oshiomhole has committed impeachable offences, hence, the trepidation expressed by Oyegun and himself that he could be impeached.
“For us as a party, we are lackadaisical towards his impeachment. But from the noise emerging from his quarters, it appears the man has been involved in many impeachable offences.”
On the allegations of impeachment in APC states raised by the APC national chairman, the PDP chairman verbalized the opposition raised the alarm due to trepidation of vanquishment in 2015.
He verbalized he did not optically discern any reason non- legislative members would engage themselves in verbalizes bothering on impeachment when the state legislators had the constitutional right to do so.
Meanwhile, despite his abstraction as the Governor of Adamawa State and threats of apprehend for treason, Nyako had verbalized that he would not withdraw his controversial memo to the northern governors even on his death-bed.
Nyako, who verbalized with Saturday PUNCH through his media aide, Ahmad Sajoh, verbalized information at his disposal had now shown that the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party were deeply involved in his impeachment.
There have been reports that Nyako, who has gone underground since his impeachment on Tuesday, would be apprehended for treason over the memo to the northern governors on April 4, 2014.
Nyako, in the memo, had inculpated President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration of genocide against the North.
He had inculpated the administration of organising the killing of citizens and then expeditiously attributing same to the Boko Haram sect.
Nyako had verbally expressed, “Cases of mass murders by its bloody minded killers and cut-throats are prominent, but it attributes the killings to the soi-disant Boko-Haram.
“The administration has withal hired militia from all across, especially North Africa, who have been apostatized into accepting to come because they were made to believe that they would be fighting infidels.”
He inculpated Jonathan’s administration of utilizing “mass murderers/cut-throats imbedded in our legitimate and traditional defence and security organisations” to carry out the genocide claims.
Nyako verbally expressed the administration was tenacious to engender strife between Muslims and Christians in the North or between one ethnic group and another.
The governor’s aide verbally expressed Nyako made the allegations predicated on the information available to him as a retired Admiral in the Nigerian Navy.
According to him, afore inditing the memo, the governor considered all options.
Asked whether the governor would withdraw the verbalization now that he had been impeached, Sajoh verbalized, “That is something that is not possible. We believe that predicated on the information available to him as a retired Admiral in the Nigerian Navy; having a very sound military background, having been the person that had the privilege of establishing the perspicacity unit of the Nigerian Navy and being a person that kens precisely what security issues are concerned, he weighed all the options afore making that verbalization. And I can tell you that even on his death-bed, he stands by that verbal expression.”
The governor, however, made a U-turn on the involution of the President and the Peoples Democratic Party in his impeachment by the state House of Assembly.
Nyako, had on July 4 verbally expressed the President had no hand in the impeachment saga initiated by lawmakers in Adamawa State.
Nyako incriminated “some senior citizens” of Adamawa predicated in Abuja for the political imbroglio bedevilling the state.
He verbally expressed, “The Presidency is not orchestrating a plot to abstract me from office contrary to notional theorizations.
“We ken that Adamawa State is plenary of intellectuals, when issues arise, we utilize different approaches to address them. That is the cause of the political differences we have, but not much outside interference.”
Sajoh, however, verbalized subsequent information available to the governor showed that the PDP and the Presidency were involved in the impeachment.
He verbally expressed, “Information now available and subsequent actions that were taken by the Presidency and the PDP national headquarters and other persons very proximate to the President must definitely make anyone transmute his position with regard to whether the Presidency was involved or not.
“But of course, at the time he made the verbalization, he made it believing that it was an Adamawa internal affair.
“With the turn of events and the things that transpired at the time of the impeachment till date, one will not verbally express the same thing today.”
The governor withal verbally expressed that despite his abstraction, he had no regrets for decisions he took while in office.
Sajoh verbalized, “The former governor took whatever decision he took believing that the bases upon which such decisions were taken were right. He took rational decisions and as a human being barring the circumscriptions of his mortality, he has no regrets whatsoever.” The media aide verbally expressed the governor’s conscience was pellucid because the bases on which the decisions were taken were right.
“As a retired officer of the Nigerian Armed forces and gentleman and as a credible person, he has no regret dumping the PDP and he has no intention of returning to the party,” Sajoh integrated.
Efforts to get the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisah Metuh, to react to the insistence of Nyako on his memo and allegations over impeachment did not prosper as calls to his mobile telephone did not go through neither did he respond to the SMS sent to him. But Metuh, had in a verbalization on Wednesday, verbally expressed the PDP did not optate to join issues with the APC.
He verbalized, “Nigerians ken that this is a component of the orchestrated plot by the APC to discredit and blackmail institutions of regime, particularly the legislature, the citadel of democracy and stronghold of the will of the people and ultimately set the stage to destabilise the polity.”
