Rivers-based activist Jake Epelle warned former governor Nyesom Wike on Thursday to cease making threats of impeachment against his successor, Siminalayi Fubara.
Epelle argued that Wike cannot promote peace while simultaneously encouraging his supporters in the Martins Amaewhule-led legislative body to move forward with efforts to impeach the current governor of the oil-rich state.
“Let them go and try impeachment, they will not succeed,” Epelle said on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief show.
“Nobody will impeach Fubara. I say that openly on national television because he hasn’t committed any impeachable offence. Nobody will impeach him; the people are solidly behind him.
“Will anything happen if he is impeached? No; the Rivers people are not troublesome the way we are painted but we will stand behind him (Fubara) and stand behind democracy.
“If we don’t stem the tide of this chaos, it can happen to any other person. This threat of impeachment going round should stop.”
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The ongoing feud between the Wike-backed House of Assembly and Governor Fubara shows no signs of ending, as the governor was denied entry to the Assembly Quarters on Wednesday when he arrived to re-present the state’s 2025 Budget, as required by the House following the Supreme Court ruling on February 28, 2025.
The governor stated that he had informed Amaewhule of his visit, but the Assembly claimed it had not received any communication regarding the matter.
As the drama unfolded in the South-South state on Wednesday, Wike, now the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), stated during a media briefing in Abuja that there would be nothing wrong if lawmakers decided to remove Fubara for alleged impeachable offenses, including withholding their salaries for months.
Activist Jake Epelle criticized the Assembly for embarrassing the governor and failing to pursue peace.
He also condemned Wike for escalating the situation with his impeachment threats against Fubara.
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Epelle said, “Wike doesn’t have the constitutional power to impeach a governor. He can call for impeachment (but) he is not a member of the State Assembly.
“He has the right in his personal opinion to call for his (Fubara’s) impeachment but the people that will execute the impeachment are members of the State Assembly.
“Is there anybody beating the drum for the masquerade that is dancing? Of course, there is.
“I was told that at the point that the governor was coming to the gate, they (assembly members) received a call from Abuja (whoever made that call, I don’t know), that they shouldn’t see the governor.
“So, it’s a case of somebody beating the drum somewhere and the state assembly people are dancing to the beatings of the drum or acting the script that they were given. That’s very unfair.”
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