Delta Speaker Suspends Sitting, As Members Move For Impeachment

A source who confided in The Dream Daily, said” almost all the members of the House were angry with the Speaker over the manner he pilots the rules of House business.

According to the source, “the Speaker leaves the House business and continues to run after the executive arm of the government. Every time the Speaker preaches ‘governor Okowa for second term, Okowa carry gooooo’ no vacancy in Delta government 2019 and so on.”

He claimed that “some members have called him to order but he refused to change thereby leaving no option than impeachment,” noting that “the members explained that they were not against the second term of Ifeanyi Okowa but this should be done according to rule of the game and not done to affect the business of the legislators.”

The source explained that “the impeachment plan was so serious that the member representing Ethiop West and daughter of former Governor James Ibori, Miss Erhiatake Ibori called her father who intervened and told the Speaker to suspend sitting in order to calm the situation. If not the intervention of Ibori, Speaker Igbuya would have been impeached. Members are not happy with him, even the staff of the Assembly are also angry with him because nothing is moving in the house.
But in a reaction, Chief Press Secretary CPS to the Speaker, said the impeachment claim was not true: “We have passed the stage of impeachment, what member will be thinking now is how to improve the state of economy, nobody is plotting any impeachment. As I speak to you now, seven members of the Assembly are yet to return from abroad and we are expecting them this week.
“I know of Ibori’s daughter, Evens and about five others who are yet to come back. The Assembly cannot seat without quorum but hopefully by 18 of October the House shall seat.”