The Martins Amaewhule faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly has condemned the demolition of the Assembly Complex on Moscow Road.
Twenty-six members of the Rivers State House of Assembly have convened following the demolition of the Assembly complex building.
The members were led by Amaewhule on Thursday barely 24 hours after the demolition ordered by Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
The Amaewhule-led group convened a plenary session at the Assembly Quarters auditorium on Aba Road, despite a restraining court order.
A five-member group led by Edison Ehie had earlier declared 27 of the group’s parliamentarians empty due to their departure from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The caretaker committee chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Tony Okocha has recently said the efforts of Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu to settle the rift between state governor Fubara and his predecessor Nyesom Wike, have failed.
He said President Tinubu’s move to end the fight between both parties has failed as the political crisis in the state has continued to worsen
It can be recalled that the president recently held a meeting with Wike and Fubara at the Aso villa in Abuja, to install peace between them.
But the recent demolition of the Rivers State House of Assembly Complex and the defection of 27 lawmakers loyal to Wike to the APC have proven that the crisis is far from over.
Okocha said, “I wasn’t part of it, but whatever that was it, has broken down, and it has been broken irreconcilably.”
