IMHA: Obinna Okwara’ to drag Imo Speaker Kennedy Ibe to court

The recently sacked Imo Assembly Member who represented Nkwerre in the State Assembly, HonObinna Okwarra, has revealed his next line of action following the vacation of his seat by the Kennedy Ibe led Imo Assembly.

Okwara has revealed that he would be dragging Kennedy Ibe to court, for declaring his seat vacant.

Okwara, was speaking to newsmen at his country home, Nkwerre, on Thursday where he insisted that the Speaker did not have the right to declare his seat vacant.

“He has shot himself in the foot and I am not moved by his shenanigans,” he added.

Okwara stated that the Speaker had committed contempt of the court, as there was existing suits in the court of competent jurisdiction on the matter for which Ibe was a co-defendant.

Okwara described the announcement Kennedy Ibeh vacating his seat for defecting from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as illegal, insisting it is null and void.

“This is a parliament that suspended me for attending the burial ceremony of Uche Nwosu’s mother in December.

“I will go to court for the interpretation of the section 109 which he relied on to declare my seat vacant. He doesn’t have the right. He has shot himself in the foot and I am not moved by his shenanigans.” he added.

“You don’t keep something on nothing and expect it to stand. Who is even the complainant in this matter. Did I write any letter to the house announcing my defection to the PDP?”

Okwara stated “the speaker risks a jail term for declaring my seat vacant. The matter he dabbled into is sub judice. There are five suits at the Federal High in Owerri challenging the defecting of 17 out of the 27 Imo lawmakers from PDP to APC.

“We are lawmakers. We don’t interpret the laws. The courts do. He who goes to the equity must go with a clean hands. The speaker should first declare his own seat vacant for defecting to three political parties in four political outings in three years.”