Politics
YOU CAN’T IMPEACH A GOVERNOR IN A FLASH! Ortom dismisses impeachment notice, says lawmakers did not form a quorum
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said his impeachment by eight APC lawmakers on Monday did not follow “legal and constitutional processes”.
Ortom’s media aide, Terver Akase, in a statement, maintains that he is still the governor of the state.
Akase said the lawmakers that impeached Ortom did not form a quorum.
Wuzup Naija had on Monday morning reported that eight of the 30 members of the Benue State Assembly served an impeachment notice on the governor.
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The statement said,
“Ortom is still the Chief Executive of the State. You can’t just impeach a Governor in a flash. You have to go through all the legal and constitutional processes.
They have not been able to form a quorum, so it is not possible. Only eight people served the governor the notice, even at that, two other members who were part of the kangaroo sitting were on the side of the governor, so how can anybody call that an impeachment notice. It’s laughable and must be ignored completely.
And for the record, there is a court injunction restricting the impeached Speaker from parading himself as the Speaker of the House and that court injunction has not been vacated.
He has been suspended for six months, he doesn’t have any constitutional right to go back to that Assembly.
He has done nothing to vacate that injunction so whatever he did stands null and void.”
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