Twenty-six members of the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike who earlier signed an impeachment notice on October 30, 2023, on Governor Siminalayi Fubara have backslid and withdrawn the impeachment notice.
26 of the lawmakers pronounced the withdrawal notice during a sitting presided over by House Speaker, Rt. Hon Martin Amaewhule, at the Assembly quarters along Aba Road on Wednesday.
The withdrawal of the impeachment notice is part of the directives by President Bola Tinubu after a meeting with Wike, Fubara, and other stakeholders in the state.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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