By Emmanuel Aziken

ENUGU—A pressure group, Enugu Rescue Group, ERG, has flayed the reported pressure on the deputy governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, to resign his office, describing the episode as a festival of shame and raw power.

The group in a statement made available to Vanguard, equally chided Enugu PDP stakeholders who are supportive of the removal of the deputy governor from office and accused them of playing the ostrich.

The group in the statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Martin Okenwa, described the meeting of the stakeholders and senior Enugu government officials on July 27, on the issue as contrived to legitimise the unpopular pressure from the governor on his deputy to resign.

It reasoned that asking the deputy to resign or get impeached at the pleasure of one man was unconstitutional and the height of impunity, and wondered, “why such a meeting was held without involving the deputy governor to tell his on side of the story.

“It baffles us that rather than see if the alleged offences of the deputy governor were true or if they constituted gross misconduct and abuse of office as conceived by the 1999 Constitution, the meeting was more interested in whether the Governor wanted his Deputy or not.”