Enugu State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted the oppor­tunity offered to impeached deputy governor, Sunday Onyebuchi, to return to the state civil service as a deputy director, describing the gov­ernment’s offer as a carica­ture appointment, huge joke and theatre of the absurd.
A statement issued by the state Publicity Secretary of the party, Mrs. Kate Offor read in part: “It is our considered view that Enugu State Civil Service has no room for theatre of the absurd; where Governor Sulli­van Chime, who owns a poul­try farm with Chief Onyebuchi at Government House and is equally culpable, will now wash his hands like Pontius Pilate.”
But in a swift reaction, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Chukwudi Achife and the state Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP) Public­ity Secretary, Dr. Okey Ezeh described the reaction of the APC to the offer to Onyebuchi as “typically and charasteri­cally uninformed,” adding that the party appeared not to know the difference between appointment and redeploy­ment. “In its APC usual haste to misinform people, the party chose to forget or was ignorant of the fact that Mr. Onyebuchi was a civil servant before his appointment to political of­fice and subsequent election as deputy governor.
“If it had done its homework well, it would have known that Onyebuchi never formally re­signed from the civil service and that his appointment was not terminated all the while he occupied political offices. Having been relieved of his political office, is it not proper that he should return to his original service?
“His redeployment should actually be seen as a great act of magnanimity by the state government. It is strange that the party (APC) acted in such an indecent haste that it was impatient to hear the views of Mr. Onyebuchi on the de­velopment before dabbling into it.” The APC had stated that it was a huge joke that after Governor Chime alleg­edly rail-roaded the House of Assembly to impeach Chief Onyebuchi on flimsy allega­tions, the governor had turned round to redeploy him to the state civil service as a deputy director.
“We had thought as a senior lawyer and former Attorney General of Enugu State, that Governor Chime is knowledg­able enough to appreciate it’s trite law that impeachment, in other words, is conviction. Therefore, he cannot appro­bate and probate(sic); hence, arrogating to himself the pow­ers to clear Chief Onyebuchi from the undue conviction by this caricature appointment.”
The APC urged Governor Chime to “swallow his pride and apologise to Chief Onye­buchi, his co-beneficiary of ex-governor, Dr Chimaroke Nnamani’s benevolence,” who allegedly hand-picked and im­posed them on the people of Enugu State.

Enugu govt, APC trade words over impeached deputy governor’s posting