ABIA: I WAS IMPEACHED BECAUSE I REFUSED TO SHARE ALLOCATION WITH MEMBERS – MARTINS

 

Ousted Speaker of the Abia House of Assembly, Chief Martins Azubuike, said he was impeached because he chose to deploy available funds into projects and not consenting to sharing it among colleagues.

Azubuike spoke on Monday at a civic reception organised in his honour by his people under the auspices of Umunneato-Ngwa, a loose socio-cultural body.

The group is comprised of the three sister-local government areas of Osisioma Ngwa, Isialangwa North and Isialangwa South of the state.

Abia Speaker Martin Azubuike He told the crowd that he committed no impeachable offence but was removed because he did not accede to demands to share allocations to the House among the members. Azubuike, who was highly revered by assembly workers for bringing his experience to bear on the House as a third-term legislator, listed the projects executed during his more than one-year tenure as Speaker.

 

According to him, the projects included the completion of an office complex building for the 24 legislators. He said that the building started in 2007, but could not be completed by his two predecessors. Azubuike said other projects were the computerisation of the operations of the Assembly and development of a website for the House to enable members track its activities from within and outside the complex.

The ex-Speaker said that he also procured vehicles for the members and two buses for committee assignments. “These monetary achievements were the challenges I had with the members because I did not agree the money should be put on the table to be shared among the members,” Azubuike said. He also reeled out a number of constituency projects he executed in his Isialangwa North constituency, to include the grading of roads in the area and bursary award to 100 students. The former speaker said that he organised free medical services for people of the area as well as schools competitions, during which scholarships were awarded to the best students, among other projects.

 

Azubuike said that at the inception of the sixth assembly, his leadership articulated a road-map for 2015/2019 on how to drive development in the state. According to him, whatever the present administration of Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu had achieved from inception to date was as a result of the initiatives by the House under his leadership. Besides, he said that since his emergence as Speaker, he gave support to the governor, against the background that it was the first time the Ngwa extraction produced a governor since the creation of Abia.

However, Azubuike expressed his readiness to continue to support the governor to ensure his success. He also assured his people that he would continue to provide effective representation to the area in the House. He said: “I am not going to take the back seat but I will take the front seat because I do not see anybody in the House that can do it better than I.” The ex-Speaker thanked the organisers of the event and elders of the area for the honour done to him. Azubuike said that he had been consoled by their solidarity and kind words, which he hoped to cherish all his life. In an interview with newsmen on the sideline of the event, Azubuike said that he was not served a notice of impeachment to enable him defend himself against the charges levelled against him.

Eminent politicians and leaders of the group, in their separate speeches, discredited the action of the legislators, describing their reasons for the impeachment as not only flimsy but untenable.

The Chairman of Isialangwa North Local Government Council, Chief Ginger Onwusibe, said that the reason adduced by the House in impeaching Azubuike was “to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it”. “What happened to our brother is what a lot of people did not understand. “He is not the final destination, we know the final destination and that is why we should stand united to defend our son, the governor, who we all struggled to enthrone.

 

“Ikpeazu represents the collective destiny of the Ukwa Ngwa people,” Onwusibe said. He said that many people thought the youths of the area would mobilise to block the Ngwa axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway to protest Azubuike’s removal.

He assured that the youths would not be lawless or take any action that would undermine Ikpeazu’s administration. “This administration is the one we all struggled to install. We cannot destroy the house we jointly built,” Onwusibe said. The leader of the group, Mr Emmanuel Adaelu, expressed utter disappointment that no legislator, including those from Ngwa ethic nationality, told him the sins Azubuike committed to warrant his removal. “When I made phone calls, none of the legislators from our area could tell me what Azubuike did yet they all signed his impeachment notice,” Adaelu said. Other speakers exonerated Azubuike of the allegations levelled against him.

 

They admonished him not to be demoralised by the action but to aspire to greater height believing that “when one door closes, God would open another”. Amuta described the reasons for the impeachment as trumped up charges orchestrated to undermine him, warning that the action will boomerang against the masterminds.

The leader, Nzuko Ohaneze Ukwa Ngwa, Saint-Moses Ogbonna, underscored the need for cohesion among the legislators from the area, saying there is strength in unity. There was also a consensus among the people on the need for everybody to rally support for Ikpeazu’s administration. The people also resolved to take actions to secure Ikpeazu’s second tenure, saying that Abia South Senatorial District must serve two terms like other districts. NAN recalls that Azubuike was impeached on Dec. 29, 2016, by 20 out of the 24 legislators for alleged financial recklessness and autocratic leadership style, among other allegations.

Other highlight of the event was a novelty match in which Isialangwa North defeated Isialangwa South by 4-2. 

Source:Vanguard

ABIA: MARTINS SAGA: I KNOW THOSE BEHIND THE IMPEACHMENT AND I WILL EXPOSE THEM -MARTINS AIDE

The last has not been heard of the saga relating to the impeachment of Rt. Hon Martins Azubuike who was dramatically removed  as the Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly on the 28th of December 2016.

News Track Nigeria gathered from the facebook handle of Rt. Hon Martins Azubuike’s media aide Prince Clinton Uba that the financial recklessness leveled against his boss is not true, he threatened to exposed those behind the impeachment of his boss. He want ahead to say that he will expose those who have stolen Abia State money since 1999 till date and where they kept the money.

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There’s no odour that smells so bad than that, which arises from goodness tainted. Having been a core member of OTUONU, Sen.Enyi Abaribe’s then political hurricane, i can boldly say, i know every politician in Abia. Moving forward, i ve just got a copy of the badly written impeachment notice against my Boss, Rt. Hon. Martins Azubuike. It drives me crazy that one of the false allegations is financial recklessness. Pls,let nobody touch the tiger by the tail. We know those who stole our money from 1999 till date. We know their investments with our stolen wealth in and outside Nigeria. We are aware where they kept the money in Mexico and Venezuela.

So, Rt. Hon.Martins Azubuike is not in any way financially reckless. I know those that plotted the impeachment, i know ALL that trended, and the inducement. About one month ago, i told my Boss the clandestine moves to impeach him, with all the details of the dramatic personae.

Soonest, am coming out with THE REAL REASONS WHY THE HAWKS MOVED AGAINST ABIA BEST LEGISLATIVE BRAIN AND INTELLECTUAL POWER HOUSE. I ve told my family those who may likely assassinate me. And if they succeeded, i ve kept pple alert who will go after them and their families when am gone. I ve conquered fear! Am not afraid of death.

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Source: Newstrack Nigeria

ABIA STATE: IKPEAZU TO BE IMPEACHED, IKUKU TO TAKE OVER AS GOVERNOR SOON

We ask our readers to go back to all our reports prior to the elections and thereafter, deduce that all our predictions before the elections came to pass.  

Before the elections, we got intelligence information that Governor T.A. Orji (Ochendo) and the family had appointed Okezie Ikpeazu as the Governor of the state with the then speaker as Deputy Governor, that Cosmos Ndukwe was to be the Deputy Speaker, While Chinedu Orji (Ikuku), the then Governor’s son was to be the Speaker of the House.

Massive state resources were put in place to ensure the emergence of these people as they were all sworn to the same oath.

Martin Azubuike was never supposed to be a legislator. The Ibeku cabal had chosen someone other than him as they did not want any person to rank above Ikuku from Abia Central. That was why PDP candidates from Abia Central were all supposed to be new members. 

The strong showing of APGA in the election, where it legitimately almost won all the seats in the house put a spanner to their works. Martin Azubuike was supposed to be sacrificed. It was alleged that he actually lost the elections but due to the controversy surrounding the election of Ochendo, he had to be saved. 

To avoid controversy, and to quench the suspicion of Ngwa people, Martin was elected as speaker under an agreement that he will resign after a year. Power got into him and he refused despite all entreaties to resign the position. Hence, his recent impeachment. The excuses of financial issues are only smoke screen. Our intelligence information which has turned out to be authentic is that Okezie Ikpeazu will be eventually impeached. 

When we reported that the speaker will be impeached, people didn’t believe us. We gave the time frame. Has it not happened? We were also informed that Bishop Kennedy will be a stop gap speaker. Curiously, he was forced to resign less than 24 hours after his election as the speaker. Another unknown Ikuku’s boy has now been sworn in. Bishop Kennedy refused to do the usual fetish things which is the order of the day, that was why he was forced to resign. Would it surprise anybody that someone that contested elections and won, will within 24 hours resign the same position. Well, it is part of the agenda to make sure that all Ngwa assembly men will have tasted power. The new speaker will resign by the 20th of January 2017 to pave way for the emergence of Ikuku as the speaker.

The plan is that the newly elected speaker will on the agreed date submit his letter of resignation to the clerk and to avoid vacuum. Ikuku will then be elected speaker by simple majority. While, you need 2/3 majority to impeach the speaker, you need a simple majority to elect a new one. The Ngwa honorable members having all being speakers, it will now be left for Ikuku as the only PDP member for the position.

Thereafter, the next plan is to impeach Okezie. They believe that if Okezie is impeached, the case in court will be over. If on the other hand uche Ogah or Alex Otti wins in the supreme court, the assembly under Ikuku plans to impeach either of them in the same week they are sworn in using the Peter Obi example.

No matter how it turns out, the die is cast. The Ngwa man has taken his turn as Governor. It is time for Ochendo to take back his Greek gift. Our readers are advised to keep watching and reading this column, a lot is happening and there will be more to come. The time for the Ngwa people is over. If Ikuku’s plans work out, the Governor and the Speaker positions will be taken back from them.

Martin Azubuike impeached. Bishop Kennedy elected and sworn in as Speaker forced to resign within 24 hours. Ikuku to the speaker as prelude to impeachment of Okezie Ikpeazu.

Source: Abia Facts News.