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Legislative lawyers affiliated with the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, have begun efforts to recall 26 members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, including Speaker Martin Amaewhule, in response to the lawmakers’ impeachment proceedings against Governor Sim Fubara.

According to the ZINGTIE, Rivers lawmakers began impeachment proceedings against Fubara on Thursday, accusing him of severe wrongdoing, including financial embezzlement.

ALDRAP announced the start of the recall process in a letter to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

In the letter, the attorneys’ group requested certified true copies (CTCs) of the voters’ registers for all state constituencies in Rivers State.

The legislative attorneys organization, in the letter received by ZINGTIE on Friday, said several of its members are constituents of the said lawmakers and as such, it has the legal right to launch the recall process.

ALDRAP warned INEC that if the CTCs of the voters’ registrations were not made available, it would go to court to demand their release.

The letter, dated January 8, 2026, and signed by ALDRAP Secretary, Dr Tonye Clinton Jaja, SCN, reads, “Notice of commencement of recall of Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule, Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly and 25 other legislators of the House of Assembly who signed the impeachment notice dated 8th January 2026 and request for certified true copies (CTCs) of the voter register of all the state constituencies of the Rivers State House of Assembly.

“Contrary to the judgment of February 2025 of the Supreme Court of Nigeria that enjoined the members of the Rivers State House of Assembly to work in peaceful harmony with the Governor of Rivers State by exploring and exhausting amicable methods to resolve conflicts, the members of the Rivers State Houseof Assembly have once again initiated belligerent methods.

“Ironically, both the Governor of Rivers State and the said members of the Rivers State House of Assembly are members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and ought to have explored and exhausted internal dispute resolution mechanisms.

“In light of the foregoing, as a public interest organisation of lawyers majority of whom are constituents of all state constituencies of the Rivers State House of Assembly, we hereby demand the aforementioned certified true copies (CTC) and put your Commission on notice.”

In a further reaction to the development, ALDRAP declared that the impeachment notice is dead on arrival because the lawmakers referred to Governor Fubara as “madam” in the letter addressed to him.

“The letter of notice of impeachment against Governor Fubara is dead on arrival for two legal reasons: (1) Fundamental flaw of addressing Governor Fubara as “madam” and (2) the constituents of Rivers State did not endorse or authorize the lawmakers of Rivers State House of Assembly to commence impeachment against Governor Fubara,” ALDRAP said.

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