The Rt. Hon. Martins Amaewhule-led Rivers State House of Assembly and the Rivers State government have expressed divergent views over the Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s appeal in SC/CV/1071/2024.
While members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, who are loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, are thanking God and the Supreme Court for granting them victory, the state government has insisted that its cases challenging the leadership of the State House of Assembly and the membership of the 27 lawmakers who defected to another party in December 2023 are still before the Supreme Court.

LEADERSHIP recalls that 27 lawmakers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), loyal to Wike, had announced their defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as part of the fallout from Wike’s frosty relations with his successor and political godson, Governor Fubara.

Acting on this, the governor began engaging with the remaining four members, including presenting the state’s 2024 budget estimates, claiming that the defectors had lost their seats as stipulated in the constitution—a position hotly contested by the Wike-backed lawmakers.

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