In what appears to a fence mending mission for the 2027 Gubernatorial poll in the State, the Rivers State House of Assembly on Monday rescinded its earlier decision to declare vacant the seats of three lawmakers loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara.
The forgiven lawmakers are: Victor Oko-Jumbo (Bonny) Adolphus Timothy Oruibienimigha (Opobo/Nkoro) and Sokari Goodboy Sokari (Ahoada West).
At plenary, the House read a letter from the three lawmakers in which they said they never received the correspondence asking them to resume legislative sittings after the President’s intervention in the crisis.
The lawmakers were said to have tendered apology to the House, which was accepted with a directive for them to resume their legislative duties.
Recall over the weekend, the Minister of the FCT, Nyesin Wike and the Legislators met with Governor Siminalayi Fubara in a peace and reconciliation effort aimed at resolving the political crisis in the state.
This comes after the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, led stakeholders of the Rainbow Coalition, again, to pay a visit
The three lawmakers who were suspended on October 30, 2023, the day the Assembly made its first attempt to impeach Governor Fubara have been absent from sittings for almost three years.
One controversial aspect of the pardon is that the three lawmakers will not return to the Assembly after this tenure as they were all screened out of the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary election process.
