BREAKING: Rivers Court Halts The Activities Of Speaker, Lawmakers

• Rivers Court Bars Speaker Amaewhule and his group from sitting as state House of Assembly members.

• The order came from a suit filed by pro-Governor Fubara lawmakers led by Speaker Victor Oko-Jumbo.

• The court adjourned the case to July 1st, 2024, after previously restricting the governor and others from interacting with the affected lawmakers.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the State High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has issued an interlocutory injunction preventing lawmakers led by Speaker Martins Amaewhule from further sitting and presenting themselves as members of the state House of Assembly.

Justice C.N. Wali presided over the court, which issued the order in a suit filed by pro-Governor Siminilayi Fubara lawmakers led by their Speaker, Victor Oko-Jumbo, alongside Sokari Goodboy and Orubienimigha Timothy.

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The suit named 25 lawmakers as the 1st to 25th defendants and the Rivers Governor, the Attorney-General, and the Chief Judge of the state as the 26th to 28th defendants.

Previously, on May 10th, the court granted a similar order on a motion ex-parte, restricting the governor, the attorney-general, and the Chief Judge from interacting with the affected lawmakers.

Granting the interlocutory injunction on May 29th, the court adjourned the case to July 1st, 2024, for further mention.

The court said: “An order of interlocutory injunction is granted restraining the 1st to 25th defendants from parading and holding out themselves as members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and/or meeting/sitting at the Auditorium of the House of Assembly Quarters located at off Aba Road Port Harcourt or at any other place whatsoever to purport to carry out the legislative business of the Rivers State House of Assembly, their legislative seats having been declared vacant pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit.

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“An order of interlocutory injunction is hereby made restraining the 26th to 28th defendants from dealing with, interfacing, accepting any resolutions, bills and/or however interacting with the 1st to 25th defendants in their purported capacities as members of the Rivers State House of Assembly their legislative seats having been declared vacant with effect from 13th December, 2023 pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit”.

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