Rivers Assembly Suspends Fubara Impeachment Proceedings
The Rivers State House of Assembly has halted impeachment proceedings against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Odu, following an intervention by President Bola Tinubu earlier this month.
The decision was taken during the resumed plenary at the Assembly’s session in the state capital.
The impeachment process had begun earlier in 2026 over alleged gross misconduct, including the demolition of the Assembly complex, extra-budgetary spending, withholding of funds from the Assembly Service Commission, and refusal to comply with a Supreme Court ruling on legislative financial autonomy.
The Assembly had, in January, requested the state Chief Judge, Justice Simeon Amadi, to set up a seven-man panel to investigate the allegations. Justice Amadi declined, citing a subsisting High Court injunction restraining him from acting on the Assembly’s request.
Fubara and Odu had separately secured injunctions from the High Court preventing the Chief Judge from constituting the probe panel, and the Assembly later appealed the restraining order.
The suspension comes days after a meeting at Aso Rock between President Tinubu, Fubara, and former Governor Nyesom Wike, which Wike described as a decisive step toward resolving the lingering political crisis in Rivers State.