Breaking: High Court Issues-Injunction Against Martin Amaewhule-Led Rivers State House Of Assembly (Details)

 Breaking: High Court Issues-Injunction Against Martin Amaewhule-Led Rivers State House Of Assembly (Details)

A High Court in Port Harcourt has issued an order of interlocutory injunction, restraining the 27-member Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly from parading themselves as lawmakers.

Justice Charles Wali of the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt division, issued the order in a suit marked PHC/1512/CS/2024. The suit, filed by Victor Oko Jumbo and two other lawmakers loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara, named Martin Amaewhule and 24 other members who had defected to the APC as defendants. Governor Fubara, the State’s Attorney General, and the State’s Chief Judge were also listed.

Granting the interlocutory injunction, Justice Wali issued the following order:

“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 Old Aba Road, Port Harcourt or 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.

An Order of Interlocutory Injunction is at this moment made restraining the 26th to the 28th defendants from dealing with, interfacing, accepting any resolutions, bills and/or howsoever, interacting with the 1st to 25th defendants in their purported capacities as members of the Rivers State House of Assembly.”

The legislative seats have been declared vacant as of December 13, 2023, pending the hearing and determination of the substantive suit. The case has been adjourned to July 1, 2024, for mention.