Pro-Fubara Lawmakers To Screen SAN As Commissioner On Monday

The faction of the Rivers State House of Assembly loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara will on Monday screen a new commissioner nominee, Dagogo Iboroma, SAN for possible appointment into the State Executive Council, SEC.

The Speaker of the Assembly disclosed the development in a memo in Port Harcourt signed by the clerk of the house, G.M Gillis- West.

GWG.ng reports that this is coming after a court injection on Friday barred Martin Amaewhule and 24 others from parading as Speaker and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly.

The memo invites Dagogo Iboroma, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria to appear before it at its Chambers in the Administration Block of the Government House Port Harcourt, for screening.

The memo read: “The Rivers State House of Assembly hereby invites the following Commissioner nominee for screening and confirmation as a member of the Rivers State Executive Council. Dagogo Iboroma.

“The screening is expected to hold at the Hallowed Chamber, Rivers State House of Assembly, Auditorium, admin block, Rivers State House of Assembly.

“The nominee is to come along with 10 sets of his curriculum Vitae , photocopies of his credentials and their originals.”

It is expected that Iboroma may replace Prof Zaccaeus Adangor, SAN, who not too long ago resigned as the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice.

GWG.ng reports that the decision to screen Dagogo Iboroma as a possible commissioner follows the decision of the Fubara government not to recognise the pro-Nyesom Wike led set of lawmakers.

Reacting to the continuing protest of the Martins Amaewhule led faction over the relocation of the State House of Assembly, the state commissioner for information, Joseph Johnson dismissed him as a former lawmaker.

Johnson stated, “He does not have a locus. He is no longer a speaker and he cannot even dictate whatever he would have loved to say thereafter. There is already an existing court ruling, even though an ex parte order.”

The commissioner further stated that “Amaewhule has lost status, and if he truly is a lawmaker, the law says that the law you fail to respect cannot protect you.

“The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Section 109(1g) says that you lose your seat once you cross. They crossed before they got the judgment that they claimed they got from Omotosho.

“And from then till now, they do not exist. It does not require anybody to interpret that law. That law is self-explanatory. That law can only be thwarted by the court, and the only court that can thwart it is the Supreme Court.’’

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