AMAECHI IMPEACHMENT: Patience Jonathan Meets Anti-Amaechi Lawmakers In Rivers

The impeachment plot being hatched against Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State is said to have gained momentum on Friday as the First Lady, Patience Jonathan reportedly met with the group of six legislators who are against the Amaechi-led administration.

Mrs. Jonathan is in Rivers to attend the wedding of a relative and reports say she presided over meetings with the 6 anti-Amaechi legislators and other Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) executives in the state.

The rebel lawmakers have been trying to gain entrance into the State House of Assembly...

Rumours of a planned session in the state House of Assembly by the six anti-Amaechi lawmakers had spread earlier in the day, but the complex remained locked by the police.

The police last night warned the warring state lawmakers to keep off the House after receiving notice of appeal filed by the National Assembly against a High Court judgement declaring as unconstitutional the take-over of the functions of the Assembly by the federal legislators.

It was gathered that the First Lady met in Port Harcourt and her Okrika hometown with the anti-Amaechi men to strategizen the way forward since they have been loosing in the courts.

The calculation of the group is to have the self-acclaimed Speaker of the House of Assembly, Evans Bipi, take over the affairs of the state once the plot succeeds with the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, waiting in the wings to fly the PDP ticket in the governorship election that will follow.