Nwazunku was never impeached, says Ebonyi PDP, Gov. Elechi on august 11, 2014 at 9:01 pm in news ABAKALIKI-The Peoples Democratic Party,(PDP), Ebonyi State chapter, Monday, said that Rt. Hon.Chukwuma Nwazunku was never impeached. It said the issue that led to the said impeachment was not good enough to justify any attempt for his removal. Nwazunku was acclaimed to have been impeached on 21 July by 18 out of the 24 members of the house but he has continued to describe the action as illegal. But the party after a meeting with the house members told reporters that its findings showed that the Speaker was never impeached. The party’s position was made by the state Governor, Chief Martin Elechi at the party’s state secretariat in Abakaliki. Elechi also maintained that Chukwuma Nwazunku remains the Speaker of the Assembly. The Governor added that the decision to reinstate Hon. Chukwuma Nwazunku as the authentic speaker of the house is not negotiable. His words; “Today being the eleventh day of August, 2014 exactly three weeks we woke up to hear the purported impeachment of speaker of the our House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Chukwuma Nwazunku. “Ever since then there has been reactions from all manner of people from, the informed, the uninformed and ill informed. We have read from the pages of the newspapers of various comments and reactions from so on and so forth. Therefore, we as a party, we as a government remained calm and did every thing to unravel what led to the alleged impeachment of the speaker”. “We interview both sides and they barred their minds and spoke frankly. On our own part, we believed that the issue that lead to the alleged impeachment of the speaker were not good enough to justify any attempt of impeachment. We are also convinced that the allegations which the members had against him was in all respect improper and unacceptable”. “We also realized our duty and obligation to ensure peace in Ebonyi state not of course to deny the right of the Honorable house to change its leadership as at and when it deems necessary”. “But we do not appropriate blames at that stage. We simply met with our elders and principal stakeholders in PDP and in executive arm of government by extension the entire Ebonyi state”. “We also gave rooms for speculations to know if we are alive to our responsibilities. We have given rooms as to whether we are capable of holding the state. But these are laughable opposition even though in democracy, you allow all options to prevail because everybody has a right to what he thinks or believes in”. “Having considered all these and in the interest of justice, peace and fair play to prevail, we as a government, we as a party hereby state and affirm that RT Hon Chukwuma Nwazunku was never impeached as being alleged. So he remains the Speaker of Ebonyi State Assembly and we shall continue to work with him”
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 21:22:38 +0000