A caucus of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State has advised the state’s Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, to resign or risk impeachment by the state’s House of the Assembly.
The House had penultimate week, moved a motion for the deputy governor to be served with an impeachment notice, accusing him of gross misconduct.
The members of the PDP caucus that met on Saturday night in the Governor’s Lodge in Enugu, were bitter that Onyebuchi allowed his relationship with the governor to degenerate to the level that the House had to intervene.
A reliable source at the meeting told Daily Sun that prominent members of the caucus including Senator Ken Nnamani, Amb. Fidel Ayogu and Dubem Onyia were not happy after governor Sullivan Chime narrated his experience with his deputy in the last seven years.
The source said Senator Nnamani had told the caucus members that the deputy governor had run to him in Abuja, where he told him to return home to resign or wait for the House to complete its investigation.
Onyia and Ayogu were also said to have toed the line of Nnanami for the deputy governor to bow out since Chime told the caucus meeting that he was no longer prepared to work with Onyebuchi.
However, the source said Senator Gil Nnaji and Hon Peace Nnaji representing Nkanu East and West in the House of Representatives, pleaded with Chime to pardon his deputy.
The source said Senator Nnaji had praised Chime for the good work he was doing in the state, urging him to give his deputy a second chance.
But Chime was said to have told the senator that his plea was belated because his deputy came to him in Abuja and he did not deem it fit to call him until he was invited to the caucus meeting.
The source said that the majority of the caucus members were of the opinion that it would be futile to try to save the deputy governor since his boss said he could no longer work with him.
Besides, the source said, the caucus agreed that asking the House to jettison the impeachment process would amount to ridiculing democratic practice in the state.
Chime was also said to have insisted at the meeting that members of the National Assembly from the state, who had served for two or more terms, should return home to serve in other capacities.
It was gathered that the majority of the caucus members, who are not in the National Assembly, had asked the members of the National Assembly who were all at the meeting except the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, to speak their minds but none opposed the governor.
Consequently, the caucus advised the legislators to abide by the alleged gentleman agreement reached in 2011 and consider running for other positions other than the ones they had occupied for more than two years. The Sun
