The House of Representatives has said it cannot act yet on the political crisis rocking Rivers State because the issue has not been presented formally before the National Assembly.
The deputy spokesman of the House of Representatives, Phillip Agbese, stated this in an interview while reacting to the constitutional power given to the national assembly to take over a state House of Assembly in crisis.
This is as two members of the House of Representatives representing Rivers State, Awaji-Inombek Abiante and Boma Goodhead, led a solidarity march to the Rivers State Government House in support of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
The crisis between Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, has led to the resignation of some commissioners, while 27 lawmakers loyal to Wike defected from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to the All-Progressives Congress, APC.
Commissioners and other members of Fubara’s cabinet have also been resigning.
But in an interview, Abiante said there is no need for a takeover because the House of Assembly is functioning.
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