Legislative attorneys underneath the aegis of Affiliation of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, have commenced strikes to recall 26 members of the Rivers State Home of Meeting, together with the Speaker Martin Amaewhule, over the impeachment proceedings initiated by the lawmakers towards Governor Sim Fubara.
DAILY POST reviews that the Rivers lawmakers had on Thursday commenced an impeachment course of towards Fubara, accusing him of gross misconduct, together with monetary misappropriation.
ALDRAP disclosed the graduation of the recall course of in a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC.
Within the letter, the attorneys affiliation demanded licensed true copies, CTCs, of the voters register of all of the state constituencies in Rivers State.
The legislative attorneys affiliation, within the letter obtained by DAILY POST on Friday, stated a number of of its members are constituents of the stated lawmakers and as such, it has the authorized proper to provoke the recall course of.
ALDRAP put INEC on discover that it could go to courtroom to press for the discharge of the CTCs of the voters registers if the Fee fails to make them accessible.
Elements of the letter dated January 8, 2026, and signed by ALDRAP Secretary, Dr Tonye Clinton Jaja, SCN, learn, “Discover of graduation of recall of Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule, Speaker of the Rivers State Home of Meeting and 25 different legislators of the Home of Meeting who signed the impeachment discover dated eighth January 2026 and request for licensed true copies (CTCs) of the voter register of all of the state constituencies of the Rivers State Home of Meeting.
“Opposite to the judgment of February 2025 of the Supreme Courtroom of Nigeria that enjoined the members of the Rivers State Home of Meeting to work in peaceable concord with the Governor of Rivers State by exploring and exhausting amicable strategies to resolve conflicts, the members of the Rivers State Houseof Meeting have as soon as once more initiated belligerent strategies.
“Paradoxically, each the Governor of Rivers State and the stated members of the Rivers State Home of Meeting are members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and ought to have explored and exhausted inner dispute decision mechanisms.
“In mild of the foregoing, as a public curiosity organisation of attorneys majority of whom are constituents of all state constituencies of the Rivers State Home of Meeting, we hereby demand the aforementioned licensed true copies (CTC) and put your Fee on discover.”
In an additional response to the event, ALDRAP declared that the impeachment discover is useless on arrival as a result of the lawmakers referred to Governor Fubara as “madam” within the letter addressed to him.
“The letter of discover of impeachment towards Governor Fubara is useless on arrival for two authorized causes: (1) Basic flaw of addressing Governor Fubara as “madam” and (2) the constituents of Rivers State didn’t endorse or authorize the lawmakers of Rivers State Home of Meeting to start impeachment towards Governor Fubara,” ALDRAP stated.
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