A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, has extended an interim order of July 8 stopping the Chief Judge and the Clerk of the Rivers State House of Assembly from relating with the Speaker Martins Amaewhule-led House of Assembly.
Governor Siminialayi Fubara, in a preemptive move to frustrate any impeachment plot by the Amaewhule-led House of Assembly, had secured the interim order in a suit he and the Attorney-General of Rivers State filed against Amaewhule and 26 other lawmakers. The suit also listed lawmakers led by Victor Oko-Jumbo, the Chief Judge, the Clerk of Rivers State House of Assembly and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as second defendants.
The court said: “That an order of interim injunction is hereby made restraining the 31st and 32nd defendants from dealing or howsoever relating with the 1st to 27 defendants as members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and from receiving, forwarding or howsoever acting on any…”
