Factional Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule says their(27 assembly members) defection to the APC from the PDP was in line with the constitution.
Amaewhule made this known in a statement during a thanksgiving service to welcome them to the party.
He also said they dumped the PDP because there was crisis in the party, adding that they have evidence of the crisis rocking the party.
“We defected in line to the provision of the 1999constitution, section 109. We didn’t do anything contrary to the constitution. We have evidence that there is crisis in the PDP. We have every right under the constitution to defect,” he said.
On the sittings by Hon. Edison Ehie and three other Assembly members, Amaewhule said, “We hear that some four persons gathered and are meeting somewhere we don’t know. What they are doing Rivers people should know it today the House of Assembly of any state is defined by the Constitution. The only way you can reconvene the House, you need to have quorum and quorum is 11. if you are not upto 11, anything you are doing is a family meeting. Anything they told you they have done, ignore them. It’s null and void. The law is clear anything you are doing, you must do it in line with the dictates of the constitution and the standing orders of the Rivers House of Assembly. We are 27 in all. They are just four. So whenever we meet who is meeting, it’s Rivers State House of Assembly”.
