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WHY WE RESISTED BAYELSA SPEAKER’S IMPEACHMENT
—C’ttee chairman
By
UCHENNA NWAFOR ___________________________________________________________________
The
leadership of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly has said that its
resistence of the incursion of “external forces” into the House is
premised on the vision which the former governor Timipre Sylva has
for the state.
Speaking to news
men in Yenagoa while receiving members of the Integrated Supporters
of Timipre Sylva led by Mr. Nengi James, the House Committee
Chairman on Education, Hon. Jonathan Obuebite said many of the
members used by external forces had shown genuine remorse.
According to him,
the House members’ resistance during the crisis was to give the
former governor confidence to carry out those developmental ideas
for the benefit of the people of the State.
Obuebite, said
though many of the members were threatened with death, that did not
stop the 18 out of the 24 members from standing against oppressive
tendencies of those involved in the grand plot to remove the then
Speaker,Werinipre Seibarugu who is now the acting governor of the
state.
He alleged that
the plan of members who wanted to impeach the then speaker was to
install their stooge in order to promote the swearing-in of their
own as Speaker and later, acting governor of the state.
“We were asking
why they would not allow the former Governor to work.Why wont they
allow him suceed.We said ‘No’.First,they came to the House of
Assembly to divide us because they felt he had nobody in the
House.We resisted them and came together to give the man confidence
and assurance to work.These forces had planned to remove the Speaker
and make their own Acting Governor.In fact,they have pre-knowledge
of the Court of Appeal judgement.”
“Because he has
been standing on a solid rock founded by God and we have seen that
his fight was true development, it went beyond all of us.Some few
persons that worked for Sylva, betrayed him but because he is
ordained to be a Leader,he excelled.Today,it is the will of God for
him to lead Bayelsa State for the next eight years,” he said.
He called on the
youths to support the re-election bid of the former governor against
all what he called the “plans of the external forces,” even as he
explained that the call for their support for the former governor
was not borne out of news papers report, but due to what the former
Governor had been able to achieve within the last ten years.
Earlier in his
speech,the Chairman of the group, Mr. Nengi James said the
youths,women and men in the state have decided to pitch their tent
with the former Governor and have accepted to make necessary
sacrifices that would see an end to political struggles in the
State.
He enjoined all Bayelsans to allow peace to
reign so that the state can achieve the desired development. |