Rivers Crisis: Assembly speaker, Edison Ehie declares seats of 25 defectors vacant

Speaker of Rivers State house of Assembly, Hon. Edison Ehie, has declared the seats of 25 members who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), vacant.

Recall that 27 members of the state assembly loyal to Nyesom Wike, Minister of the FCT, had on Monday defected to the APC, amid push to impeach Governor Simi Fubara.