A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Austin Okai, has claimed that the hope of Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, regarding the impeachment proceedings against him is hanging on the judiciary as the All Progressives Congress (APC) has betrayed him.
Naijaonpoint reports that Okai, in an interview with Daily Post, also said some elements in the presidency had scammed Fubara by refusing to intervene in the impeachment process.
According to Okai, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) former candidate for the Dekina/Bassa federal constituency, the impeachment saga was aimed at preventing Fubara from serving a full term in office.
Okai added that the presidency ought to have called the Rivers State Assembly to order regarding the impeachment plot against Fubara.
He said, “Fubara is having problems; APC has betrayed him.
“If the presidency is protecting him as some people were making up to him, by now the whole impeachment process should have died down; now he has gone to a local court for survival, his hope is hanging on the judiciary.
“You know that the presidency can scam somebody, they have scammed him. He cannot even have control of his own House of Assembly members representing the state, a sitting governor who does not have control of his own House of Assembly.
“There is a way out. If they don’t impeach him again and he does only one term is that not okay? I was expecting that by now, APC is supposed to have come to a stage of calling the Assembly members to order because as an APC governor, he is the leader of the party.
“Maybe they don’t need him; you will weigh the option, what does he have to offer when compared to what Wike has to offer? It’s a matter of choice at this moment, what does APC want?”