Rivers State Elders and Leaders Forum has vowed to resist the move by a faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
In a communique issued at the end of their meeting in Port Harcourt on Monday, condemned the impeachment notice on the governor, saying the impeachment notice coming barely six months after the governor assumed office was not acceptable.
The meeting was presided over by former Governor of the state, Chief Rufus Ada-George, and attended by former Deputy Governor, Sir Gabriel Toby, former Senate Minority Leader, Dr. Bennett Birabi, Admiral Promise Fingesi, Ms. Annkio Brigss, Chief Anams Sara-Igbe and Prof. Dagogo Fubara among others.
The elders condemned the defection of 27 members of the house of assembly from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress without a recourse to their constituents.
It also condemned the Federal High Court order that cleared 27 legislators of the state whose seats were recently declared vacant to serve an impeachment notice on Governor Fubara.
The forum expressed regrets that both Governor Fubara and former Governor Nyesom Wike did not respond to letters they wrote to them to seek audience with them over the current crisis in the state.
It said it reviewed the demolition of the house of assembly building and the earlier bombing of the same building and condemned all kinds of lawlessness. It consequently urged the state government to quickly rebuild the structure to enable the house of assembly resume legislative business.
The elders called on the security agencies and the judiciary to be alive to their duties and save the state from calamity as tension continued to grow in the state.
They called on President Bola Tinubu to consolidate on his earlier intervention in the crisis to keep the peace in the state and the Niger Delta at large.
