CNPP Hails Impeachment Notice On Abia Dep Gov

The Conference of Nigeria Political Party (CNPP) in Abia last Friday hailed the impeachment notice served  on Mr  Chris Akomas, the state’s deputy governor, saying it is a welcome development.

Report said that 21 lawmakers of the state assembly served Akomas a petition accusing him of gross misconduct pursuant to S.188 (2) of the constitution.

The notice accused him of “willful absenteeism, neglecting to attend official function, conversion of public funds, and discrediting the administration and disparaging the office’’.

But in a reaction to the impeachment notice, Prince Henry Atuloma, the state CNPP chairman accused the deputy governor of being part of the “ misadministration of Abia’’, saying: “It is the law of Karma, that retributive justice that is playing up in the life of the government.’’

According to Atuloma, who is also the state chairman of National Democratic Party, said “the worst is yet to play out properly.”

He said more strange things would be unveiled with time because “the people have woken up to accept their destiny.”

On the commissioners’ nominees, he described it as a departure from the past, stressing that past administration had always been recycling the same people.

“The injection of new blood in the state executive council is a departure from the past,” he said, pointing out that other capable hands with fresh ideas should be involved in moving the state forward.

He also said that it was not surprising that the Court of Appeal in Owerri, upheld the election of Governor Theodore Orji of Abia by dismissing Chief Onyema Ugochukwu’s nine-point application.

“The judgment is okay, we in CNPP associate ourselves with it because it is the best thing to happen to Abia, and indeed, the country’s electoral system,” he said.

The court of appeal sitting in Owerri dismissed the nine-point appeal brought by Ugochukwu, PDP gubernatorial candidate in the April 14 polls.

Ugochukwu, who got a Supreme Court nod for the retrial of the petition concluded by the court of appeal sitting  in Port Harcourt, had urged the court to declare him as winner of the poll.