SPEAKER’S IMPEACHMENT SAGA: Erondu Jnr. Debunks Involvement
*Says he’s not yet member of Abia State HoA
Erondu Uchenna Erondu (JNR.), Member – Elect, Obingwa West State Constituency has dissociated himself from the extant leadership crisis rocking the Abia State House of Assembly.
Famousreporters.com reports that the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Chinedum Orji was, in the early hours of Tuesday, May 2, 2023, removed from office.
It was also, subsequently gathered that the embattled Speaker of the House, in returned suspended other members of the House who were perceived to have been the brain behind the former’s tragedy, among whom was the Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Uchendu.
Reacting to the turbulent situation, Erondu Jnr. without mincing words, reminded that he was yet to be sworn in officially as a member of the House and consequently, ought not to be dragged into the subsisting commotion, an issued perceived to have involved strictly existing members of the House.
In a release signed by the Member-elect and issued to the Media, in Umuahia, the State’s capital, today, Thursday, he expressed utter shock at the seemingly shocking involvement of his person in the catastrophic happenings.
Speaking pointedly, the proud Obingwa son how in the world he could have succeeded in swaying sitting members of the House to actualise the impeachment of the Speaker.
Dismissing the malicious allegations, he described it as a stealthy strategy by a set of individuals whom he described as “traducers who are intent on soiling my good image and by implication that of this government which I have served creditably.”
He, therefore, urged the peddlers of the “unfounded and malicious” news to swiftly desist from all forms of character assassination, whatsoever.
The release read in detail:
My attention has been drawn to rumours being bandied around that I was involved in the recent happenings at the Abia State House of Assembly.
For the sake of clarification, I wish to state as follows:
1. It is self- evident that I am not yet a member of the Abia State House of Assembly.I am therefore at a loss as to how I would have galvanised the 16 members who participated in the May 2, 2023 Sitting of the House when I am not yet their colleague.
2. At no point did I give any Legislator of the present 7th Assembly any money to effect the change of speakership of the Abia House of Assembly.
3. At no point did I engage anyone to obtain on my behalf the buy-in of members of the 7th Assembly which i am not a member, for the speakership position of the 8th Assembly as these rumours seem to suggest.
4. It beats my imagination that my name could be associated with the internal wrangling in the House which has culminated into the present crisis rocking the House when I am not in anyway connected to the day to day activities of the House and cannot possibly be a beneficiary of the outcome of the crisis in whatever way
5. It is clear that these malicious allegations cum rumour are part of a surreptitious strategy being orchestrated by my traducers who are intent on soiling my good image and by implication that of this government which I have served creditably. I therefore wish to plead that these unfounded and malicious allegations should stop forthwith as it will not serve any useful purpose.
6. I advise the idle minds manufacturing these lies and rumours and seeking to drag my name down to look for a meaningful venture to engage their brains rather than this reckless path of character assassination which CAN NEVER BE THE EXCLUSIVE PRESERVE OF ANY PERSON OR GROUP OF PERSONS
May God lead us aright and bless our amiable State, Abia
Thank you
ERONDU UCHENNA ERONDU JNR
Member – Elect
Obingwa West State Constituency
May 4, 2023
