Edison Ehie, the Chief of Staff to Governor Similanayi Fubara of Rivers State, says he was offered money to join his colleagues in plotting his principal’s impeachment.
“They invited me, your son, to impeach the governor and I told them clearly, I was not interested,” Mr Ehie said on Saturday at a reception in Ahoada East local government area of the state, refusing to mention names. “They gave me all the money that was hidden before, which I rejected. And because I refused, they conspired and declared me wanted.”
The rift between federal capital territory minister Nyesom Wike and his estranged godson moved to the Rivers State House of Assembly (RSHA) and factionalised the legislature.
Mr Ehie and some of his colleagues, were declared wanted by the police in connection to the October 2023 inferno that affected part of the assembly complex – the venue for the impeachment proceedings against the governor that fell out with his predecessor.
Shortly after, the suspended lawmaker emerged the speaker of the RSHA faction loyal to the governor but was dissolved after President Bola Tinubu intervened and got the warring parties to accept a peace pact.
He was later appointed the Chief of Staff to Governor Fubara.
The peace deal appears to have collapsed with the emergence of a new factional speaker Victor Oko-Jumbo that secured a court order barring other aggrieved Pro-Wike lawmakers from parading as members of the legislature by virtue of their defections from the political party that sponsored their elections into the house.
