Chinedum Orji Remains Speaker as Abia Assembly Suspends Deputy Speaker, 7 Others over Failed Impeachment Plot

●●Elects Mandela Obasi as Deputy Speaker

The Abia State House of Assembly today suspended its Deputy Speaker, Rt Hon Ifeanyi Uchendu and seven other members for masterminding the a failed impeachment plot against the Speaker, Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji FNSE. Moving a motion for their suspension, Member representing Umuahia South Constituency, Hon Jerry Uzosike lamented that the actions of the affected members had brought disrepute to the Abia State House of Assembly.

He wondered how Honourable Members of the House could allow themselves to condescend so low as to dragging them to a residence outside the Assembly complex to perpetrate the impeachment plot, saying they deserve nothing but suspension.

Supporting the motion, the Member representing Isiala Ngwa North State Constituency and Member-Elect of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon Ginger Onwusibe, decried the low level governance had been dragged to in Abia State following the alleged sponsorship of the impeachment plot by a Special Adviser to the Governor just to achieve selfish purposes.

While contributing to the motion, the Majority Leader of the House, Hon Solomon Akpulonu, observed that some members purported to have signed the impeachment notice were away outside the country and wondered how the plotters were able to get their signatures if not that they were forged.