Rivers Assembly: Amaewhule-led Faction Declares Ehie, 3 Other Members' Seats Vacant
. .. to Ask INEC to Conduct Elections within 90 Days By Godwin Chukwumaechi, Port Harcourt The Hon. Martin Amaewhule-led faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly on Tuesday declared the seats of 4 members of the House vacant for breaching the provision of the 1999 constitution on absention from plenary. The affected members are Edison Ehie, currently chief of staff to the state governor, Victor Oko-Jumbo, current factional speaker of the Assembly, Adolphus Timothy Oruibienimigha and Sokari Goodboy Sokari, representing Ahoada East II, Bonny, Opobo/Nkoro and Ahoada West constituencies respectively. Ehie served briefly as factional speaker of the Rivers Assembly and was the one who declared the seats of Amaewhule and his group of other 26 members vacant after they announced their now controversial defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress, (APC). He later resigned his membership of the Assembly to serve as Chief of staff to Governor Sim...