Celestine Omehia

The Rivers State House of Assembly has passed a motion to derecognise Celestine Omehia, as a former Governor of Rivers State.

He argued that the continued recognition of Omehia in that capacity will be a bridge of the Supreme Court judgement which in 2007 removed Celestine Omehia as a Governor for not being the duly elected candidate in that year’s election. The motion was moved by the Leader of the House, Martin Amaewmule, to reverse an earlier resolution of the 8th Assembly on June 30, 2015, which compelled the Executive Arm, headed by Governor Nyesom Wike to recognise Omehia as a former Governor and be accorded all entitlements, privileges and benefits. The Rivers State House of Assembly has passed a motion to derecognise Celestine Omehia, as a former Governor of Rivers State.

The Rivers state House of Assembly has passed a motion to derecognise Celestine Omehia as a former governor of the state.

The former PANDEF spokesman said; “There’s no law in Nigeria or in the constitution that empowers the assembly to derecognise a governor. He queried; “To start with, are they the ones who voted for him, did the Rivers State House of Assembly make Omehia a Governor? They cannot approbate and reprobate at the same time. “The Rivers State House of Assembly has no power to make him a governor, to declare him a governor or de-robe him as governor,” Chief Igbe added. It is not the duty of the assembly to recognise him as a governor or not to recognise him.” The Rivers state House of Assembly has passed a motion to derecognise Celestine Omehia as a former governor of the state.

The former governor is a close ally of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Omehia was governor of the state ...

Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as the rightful governorship candidate of the PDP at the time. Omehia was governor of the state from May 29, 2007 to October 25, 2007 when he was removed by the Supreme Court and replaced by Rt. The Rivers State House of Assembly, on Thursday, adopted a motion to derecognise Sir Celestine Omehia, as a former governor of the State.

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Let Rivers people judge.” A Greek gift offered Sir Omehia to spite former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, was today effortlessly retrieved. “Back in 2015, it was politically correct to recognise Omehia but with the political realities of today, it’s no longer expedient.

Former governor Celestine Omehia is the latest casualty in the war between Rivers Gov. Wike and presidential candidate of PDP, Atiku Abubakar.

Kelvin Ebiri, the Special Assistant on Media to Wike in a statement said, “The cancellation of the recognition is sequel to the resolution of the Rivers State House of Assembly adopted on Thursday, 6th October, 2022 to derecognise Sir Celestine Omehia as a former governor of the State. All monies to be refunded within Seven days. The Rivers State House of Assembly had passed a resolution to back recognition of Omehia as a former governor of the state after Amaechi’s exit from power in 2015.

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5, Volume 52, of March, 2016, under Wike, had recognised Omehia as former governor and restored all the privileges and entitlements accruing to the former Rivers governor. Wobodo said, “As it stands today, there is no charge against anybody in any court. Zaccheus Adangor informed the court that he was withdrawing the suit. Celestine Omehia has been stripped of his title as a former governor of the state. “The cancellation of the recognition is sequence to the resolution of the Rivers State House of Assembly adopted on Thursday, 6th October, 2022 to derecognise Sir Celestine Omehia as a former governor of the state. He said the continued recognition of Omehia as former governor of the state and the continued granting of privileges and entitlements accruing to all former governors of the state to him (Omehia) was not in tandem with the highlighted pronouncement of the apex court and the provisions of the 1999 constitution.

Rivers State Govnor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike don sign di instrument wey cancel di recognition of Sir Celestine Omehia as a former govnor of Rivers State.

E gazette dat instrument and restore or rather give Omehia all entitlements and privileges of a former govnor." Celestine Omehia as former govnor of Rivers State and restore im privileges and fringe benefits. Ekine say Omehia no collect those money by imsef, e no be as if na case of money wey im misappropriate during di short time wen im bin dey office, im no appoint imsef to be di govnor or former govnor of Rivers State but all dis na action of di state both by di house of assembly and di govnor. " E no dey voidable." E tok.

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Yes, the executive has powers to pardon any citizen and to even restore their privileges but such citizens’ status as ex-officio must be previously legitimate and not inconsistent with any laws of the federation. But in the case of Sir Omehia, he is not previously a validly elected governor! It is about time their enormous powers are whittle if we intend to remain a democratic country going forward. If anyone should cry foul, it should be the Rivers people whose tax monies were misappropriated to fund a thief. Consequently, Nigerians are yet to hear of any state apart from Rivers that ever enacted a bill or dared to effect payments to a usurper in the name of the state! And their removal is different from removal by impeachment where the affected is still statutorily recognized.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. has blamed the Rivers State House of Assembly for recognising Celestine Omehia as a former Governor of the state in ...

I’ve never one day disagreed with anything the Assembly has sent to me,” the statement quoted Wike as saying. The governor stressed the need why people should keep politics away from what had been done. The governor explained that with the benefit of hindsight, the leader of the state assembly even alluded to the judgement of the apex court ousting Omehia, which said he never stood for any election. He said the action of the State 32-member legislature was in violation of an extant Supreme Court judgement which ousted Omehia and said he never existed as governor in the eyes of the law. Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike. has blamed the Rivers State House of Assembly for recognising Celestine Omehia as a former Governor of the state in 2015.