Bayelsa Assembly Impeaches Speaker For ‘Failure’ To Resign

After mounting pressure on him to resign, the Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Tonye Isenah has been impeached.

Earlier Monday morning, hoodlums invaded the assembly complex and started shooting indiscriminately.

The violence followed an alleged attempt by a faction of the house to impeach Iseneh who was expected to resign Monday after some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders mounted pressure on him to quit his position ahead of the November 16^th governorship election.

Hints about the Speaker’s resignation made the rounds on Friday, September 27th, with sources claiming that Isenah made the decision to absolve himself of any blames should the PDP by any chance fail in the forthcoming election.

The speaker had recently come under severe pressure to resign as to enable his party balance the political equations in the state ahead of the governorship election.

He was said to have reached an agreement with Dickson and other PDP leaders to vacate his office in the event that Senator Douye Diri, who hails from his Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area, emerged the candidate of the PDP for the election.

Initially, Isenah insisted that he would not relinquish his position before the governorship poll, noting that he was yet to see how abandoning his office would stop the PDP from winning the forthcoming poll.

Similarly, unconfirmed reports said some members of the assembly have elected Monday Obolo as the new Speaker.

Obolo represents Southern Ijaw Constituency 2 in the house.