Why didn’t the president intervene when the state assembly were calling for impeachment against Fubara?-Peter Ameh

According to a report by News Central TV, on Thursday February 5, 2026, Peter Ameh, the former National Secretary of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), has raised serious questions regarding the timing and motivation behind President Bola Tinubu’s recent intervention in the Rivers State political standoff.

In a pointed critique of the President’s “peace deal,” Ameh suggested that the executive’s involvement was not born out of a desire for stability, but rather a reaction to a legal blockade that had already frustrated the impeachment plans against Governor Siminalayi Fubara.

Ameh questioned why the Presidency remained silent during the earlier, more aggressive stages of the impeachment process.

He argued that the President only stepped in once it became clear that the judicial system had effectively stalled the legislative move to oust the Governor.

“I asked a question. Why didn’t the president intervene when the state assembly were calling for impeachment against Fubara?” Ameh asked. “Why didn’t he intervene when they sent their notice of impeachment to the chief justice of the state? Why didn’t he intervene when they sat to try to continue the process?”

According to Ameh, the true turning point in the crisis was a January 2026 High Court judgment delivered in Rivers State.

This ruling restrained the Chief Judge, Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi, from constituting the seven-man investigative panel required by the Constitution to proceed with an impeachment.

Ameh contended that President Tinubu’s “peace deal” was a strategic pivot once the impeachment path was legally blocked.

“He only intervened after he found out that there’s an obstacle to that impeachment,” Ameh claimed. “That obstacle came through a court judgment that delivered in Rivers State and was served on the chief judge of the state.”

The activist highlighted that the Chief Judge’s commitment to honoring the court’s injunction created a procedural vacuum that the lawmakers could not bypass.

Without the Chief Judge setting up a panel, the impeachment process reached a legal dead end.

"He intervened when he discovered that the chief judge say he will be honoring the judgment that restricted him from not setting up panel as enshrined in our constitution," Ameh stated. "With that judgment and with the statement coming from the chief judge of the state, a spanner has been thrown to the wheel of the decision of the state house of assembly to proceed with impeachment."