Justice Florence Fiberesima of the Oyigbo High Court in Port Harcourt has adjourned indefinitely the suit filed by Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his Deputy, Professor Ngozi Nma-Ordu, challenging the impeachment process initiated against them by Speaker Martin Amaewhule and 26 other members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, as well as the Clerk of the House.
When the matter resumed in court, the lead counsel to MARTIN CHIKE-AMAEWHULE and twenty-seven other house of Assembly members, S.I AMEN, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria informed the court about the appeal which has been entered and orally applied the court to stop further hearing pending the determination of the appeal.
The oral applications were not opposed by the lead claimants counsel, PAUL ORIKORO, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and LAWRENCE OKO-JAJA who is the counsel to twenty eight to thirty defendants in the court who are OKO JUMBO, SOKARI GOODBOY and ORUBIENIMIGHA TIMOTHY.
Ruling on the application, the presiding Judge, Justice FIBERESIMA adjourned sine die following the prove of two separate appeals which have been entered, a decision which she says will enable the appeal court determine the suit before it.
This same court had earlier issued an interim order of injunction against the Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, MARTIN CHIKE-AMAEWHULE, and thirty two others including the clerk of the house and Chief Judge of Rivers State.The order restrained the Speaker and others from forwarding articles of impeachment or other document or communication to Chief Judge with the sole aim of setting up a panel to investigate alleged gross misconduct. The order also restrained the Chief Judge of the state, Justice SIMEON CHIBUZOR-AMADI from receiving, considering and or however acting on any request, resolution, articles of impeachment or other document or communication from first to twenty-seventh defendants for the purposes of constituting a panel to investigate the purported allegations of misconduct against the governor and his deputy for seven days.
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