Today, Nine members of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, insisted that the resolution passed by other members of the state House of Assembly numbering 15, which passed an impeachment notice of the state governor, Martins Elechi was unconstitutional.
The reason given by the nine lawmakers was that the 15 pro- impeachment lawmakers did not make up to two-third majority as required by the Constitution to impeach the governor.
According to them, "Onwly 16 out of the 24 members can constitute two-third majority of the House, and not 15. The illegal impeachment process would fail."
Addressing journalists, spokesman for the nine lawmakers, Chima Uduma Eni, stated that, “Our attention has been drawn to the business of the ‘House’ of Friday, 27th day of February 2015, wherein a motion for a resolution that a notice of allegations of gross misconduct purportedly made against the Governor by fifteen members of the twenty-four member House.
“The said resolution was purportedly passed in clear contravention of Section 188 (4) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (As amended) which provides that ‘a motion of the House of Assembly that the allegation be investigated shall not be declared as having been passed unless it is supported by the votes of not less than two-third majority of all the members of the House of Assembly’.
“Fifteen members cannot be the ‘two-third majority of all the members’ of a twenty-four member House.
“Desperate attempts and overtures are being made to induce and intimidate the nine lawmakers into yielding, against the demand of justice and good conscience, to the plot for the impeachment of the Governor.”
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