Impeachment notice on Obaseki not from us – Edo lawmakers-elect

Members- elect of the Edo House of Assembly yet- to- be
inaugurated have disowned a purported impeachment notice on
Governor Godwin Obaseki.

They stated the notice currently circulating did not emanate
from them.

In a statement by the 14 members in Abuja, the lawmakers said
the document is fake and a calculated attempt to smear their names
for standing on the path of truth.

They claimed their disagreement about the inauguration of the
Assembly was for the proper thing to be done, adding they were
ready to work with any Speaker that would emerge from a transparent
process.

The statement reads: “We the elected members of Edo state House
of Assembly, EDHA, that have been away from our state, as a result
of the harassment and intimidation we faced for rejecting impunity
and standing for the truth, hereby wish to inform the people of Edo
state and the general public that, the impeachment notice on the
governor of Edo state, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, currently being
circulated on social media, is not from us.

“The document is fake, treacherous, insipid and a calculated
attempt to smear our names for standing on the path of truth.

“In the first place, members of the public would have noticed
that, two of the names mentioned in the fake document, Hon Nosayaba
Okunbur and Chief Sunday Ojiezele are with the governor in
Benin.

“In fact Hon Nosayaba Okunbor has done a public disclaimer to
that effect. It is also clear that, members-elect cannot impeach a
governor, the most questionable aspect of the document, is the fact
that, it was typed on an All Progressives Congress, APC,
letterhead, but the cheap criminal/s cleverly made the heading
invisible.

“Again, we want to make it abundantly clear that, our
condemnation of the nocturnal kangaroo inauguration that was
carried out in Edo state House of Assembly, that all lovers of
democracy, the world over has also joined us to condemn, is due to
the fact that, we only want the proper, and right thing done; and
any Speaker that eventually emerge from a transparent inauguration,
will work harmoniously with the governor of the state.

“We are not surprised at the appearance of a fake document on
social media, as those behind the nocturnal, shameful and kangaroo
inauguration, are capable of doing anything to give us a bad name
so as to whip up public sentiment to support their infamous
actions.”