The Nation Newspaper Rivers Assembly: Court fixes date to hear motion seeking to remove Amaewhule, 24 others
The Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has fixed a hearing for June 28 on various motions in a case seeking the removal of Speaker Martins Amaewhule and other House of Assembly members following their widely publicized defection to the
The suit has been ongoing since December, with both the PDP and the APC seeking to join the legal proceedings, resulting in prolonged legal battles between the parties involved. Pam noted that the petitioner claimed in the petition that the court refused to allow other interested parties to join the suit.
“If your Lordship bows to this letter, then you have allowed the litigants to determine pending applications before the court even before they are heard. However, the lawyer to the 1st to 25th defendants in the suit, Ferdinand Orbi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, denied knowledge of the petition by his client.
“If it is not addressed to you, then you have no grounds to discountenance it. It will be wise to await the decision, of the Honourable Chief Judge, of the Federal High Court to whom the letter was addressed. We don’t know if the CJ will ask you to go on or stop the hearing.
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