Rivers crisis: Emergency rule shielded Fubara from impeachment – Fagbemi

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The imposition of an emergency rule in Rivers State prevented suspended Governor Siminalayi Fubara from being impeached by the suspended Martins Amaewhule-led House of Assembly, according to Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Lateef Fagbemi.

Fagbemi made this claim on Wednesday at the State House in Abuja in support of the emergency declaration that President Bola Tinubu had placed on the state.

Recall that Rivers state was placed under a state of emergency by President Tinubu on Tuesday evening.

Additionally, the President imposed a six-month suspension on State House of Assembly members, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, and his deputy.

Tinubu substituted Vice Admiral Ibokete Ibas (retd.) to lead Rivers State’s administration when a state of emergency was declared.

According to Fagbemi, the president’s declaration of emergency could be interpreted as a calculated move that stopped Fubara’s impending impeachment.

“About compromise and replacement. It appears so. Don’t forget, I think yesterday (Tuesday), there was a notice of impeachment from the house of assembly.

“If that impeachment had been allowed to take its full course, then the governor would have lost entirely and completely. So, in a way, if you say it’s a compromise.

“I will agree that instead of allowing the impeachment process to continue, which in the end, would have seen both the governor and the deputy governor out of office and would have been out for the entirety of the four-year term with the remainder of what we have,” he said.

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