The Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Eugene Odo, who was reportedly ousted by his colleagues has described the purported impeachment by the nine-man faction of the lawmakers as ‘legislative recklessness and impunity’ which cannot stand.
Odo, while interacting with newsmen today insisted that he remains the speaker of the Assembly.
The embattled speaker who accused the Chinedu Nwamba group of championing the impeachment plot against him said, “The status quo remains. I am still the speaker. It is only two-thirds of the 24 lawmakers that can impeach or suspend the speaker and only eight of them cannot suspend or impeach the speaker.
“It is true that they formed a quorum but a quorum cannot impeach the speaker”.
While giving more details into the impeachment saga, the speaker claimed he was being persecuted for not signing a forged supplementary appropriation for 2012 which Governor Sullivan Chime allegedly wanted him and the clerk of the assembly to sign few weeks to the end Governor’s tenure .
Odo claimed that the document had no records in the proceedings of the assembly.
The speaker said that the crisis started when the lawmakers declined to sign the N11 billion loan sought by the governor less than 60 days to the end of his tenure.
“The governor surreptuously called some members and gave them N2 million each to impeach the speaker,” he alleged.
