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Published on 2025-11-12 21:46:44
Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa says he will not compel his deputy, Sen Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, to join him in the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Diri formally joined the APC on November 3, without his deputy, fuelling speculation that Ewhrudjakpo has been penciled in for impeachment by the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, the majority of whom followed Diri to the APC.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deputy governor subsequently approached a Federal High Court in Abuja to restrain the Bayelsa Assembly from the plot to impeach him for choosing to remain in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Diri resigned from the PDP on October 15, citing obvious reasons for his decision, but his deputy did not join him in the new…
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