As you read this, the Abia State House of Assembly has dismissed the impeachment plot carried out against its Speaker Rt. Hon. Chinedum Orji on Tuesday.
Recall that we earlier reported that the Assembly, impeached the Speaker on Tuesday morning over some unclear allegations.
However, members loyal to the leadership had swung into action saying Rt. Hon. Orji remains its Speaker. Not yet done, the Assembly suspended its Deputy Speaker, Rt Hon Ifeanyi Uchendu and seven other members for masterminding the failed impeachment plot.
Moving a motion for their suspension, the 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 themselves 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.
