There were signs of tension and strained relationship between members of the State House of Assembly and the speaker,Hon.Kombowei Benson over alleged move to impeach him from office following recent statements attributed to him against the president, Dr.Goodluck Jonathan.
While the impeachment move, according to State House of Assembly source, has received the blessing of the state governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson as a “collateral” sacrifice to affirm his loyalty to the president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, loyalists of the speaker, Hon. Kombowei Benson, including the chairman, House Committee on Information, Mr. Iniobiyo Obiene and the media assistant to the speaker, Mr. Preye Kiyaramo, have dismissed the alleged impeachment plot, as a “shocking claim”.
LEADERSHIP gathered that though the Bayelsa speaker had last week recanted on his comment against the alleged interference of the president in the battle for the seat of the central senatorial district of the state, the lawmakers were said to have expressed their displeasure to the speaker for making what they described as “degrading and inciting” comments against the president.
The angry lawmakers were said to have held series of secret meetings in Yenagoa where they discussed and condemned the speaker’s tirade against President Jonathan in an interview he granted a regional tabloid.
It was learnt that they were agitated that the speaker made statements suggesting that President Jonathan was plotting to impose candidates on members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state’s party primaries.They were said to have disassociated themselves from the offensive comments saying, “the speaker is on his own”. It was gathered that the aggrieved lawmakers further frowned on the speaker’s verbal tirade against the senator representing central senatorial district, Mr. Emmanuel Paulker.
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