•Deputy Governor Ewhrudjakpo of Bayelsa State
Bayelsa State Deputy Governor Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo has sued the House of Assembly, Speaker, Inspector General of Police (IG) and others over alleged plot to impeach him.
In an originating summons, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/2212025, Ewhrudjakpo alleged among others that members of the House of Assembly were being pressured to impeach him for failing to resign, like the governor, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on whose platform they got to office.
Governor Douye Diri recently resigned from the PDP, with the deputy governor failing to resign his membership, reports The Nation.
In the suit filed on his behalf at the Federal High Court in Abuja, by his lawyer, Reuben Egwuaba, it was alleged that members of the House of Assembly were plotting to impeach Ewhrudjakpo.
It was also alleged that some local government chairmen, including that of Sagbama Local Government, Mrs. Alice Tange, were also being threatened with sack for allegedly failing to abandon PDP along with the governor.
On October 27, after listening to Egwuaba, who moved an ex-parte motion, Justice Emeka Nwite ordered the defendants to appear before the court to show cause why the interim reliefs being sought against them by the plaintiff should not be granted.
Listed as defendants are: Bayelsa State House of Assembly, its Speaker, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Director General of the State Security Service (SSS), Attorney General of Bayelsa State, the state’s Chief Judge and the Clerk of the Assembly.
Justice Nwite, in the ruling, held that the interest of justice would be met by issuing an order for the defendants to appear and show cause why an order of interim injunction should not be granted against them, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed by the plaintiff.
