The lingering manage fight between the Rivers Atmosphere governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and lawmakers dependable to his estranged godfather and Minister of the Federal Capital Length, Nyesom Wike, has shifted to the Superb Court docket.
The Speaker of the lawmakers dependable to Fubara within the environment Space of Meeting, Victor Oko Jumbo, mentioned the factional meeting had filed an attraction on the apex court docket to problem the logic via the Attraction Court docket delivered in Abuja on Wednesday.
Recall that the Attraction Court docket had nullified the series of a Rivers Atmosphere Top Court docket which opposed Amaewhule and alternative professional Wike lawmakers from parading themselves as lawmakers.
The Court docket additionally mentioned simplest the Federal Top Court docket has the jurisdiction to entertain the topic of the lawmakers.
Reacting, Governor Fubara mentioned his management extra undeterred via the attraction court docket ruling and won’t waver in its loyalty to offering crucial infrastructure for the environment.
Consistent with a remark issued via his Press Secretary, Nelson Chukwudi, the governor gave the commitment on Friday nearest examining the level of reconstruction paintings carried out on the Zonal Health facility challenge at Bori The city, headquarters of Khana Native Executive Branch within the environment.
He mentioned: “I do know {that a} bundle of you’re going to be questioning what’s going on and all that. Executive has its personal demanding situations. In the event you move to the hold of Psalm 23 verse 5, within the Bible, it says that God prepares a desk earlier than you; it may be earlier than anyone.
“However there may be an underlined agreement that are supposed to be famous there: it mentioned ‘in the presence of your enemies’. So, it signifies that not anything comes simple.
“I need to ensure each one in every of you and the nice community of Rivers Atmosphere, that we don’t seem to be deterred. We now have made our guarantees; we can proceed to come up with excellent governance, regardless of how tricky it’s.
“But, like I said before, the worst is over. We are moving on to ensure that we continue to provide what is needed for the development of our State.”
In a similar way, in a remark issued via a factional Clerk of the Space, Dr G. M. Gillis-West in Port Harcourt, the environment capital on Friday, Oko-Jumbo mentioned the Attraction Court docket acted incorrect and his faction had filed an attraction on the apex court docket to right kind the mistake.
“There can’t be two Properties of Meeting in Rivers Atmosphere or certainly any Atmosphere in Nigeria. This Space of Meeting, with me because the Speaker, is the one Space of Meeting in Rivers Atmosphere.
“The Court docket of Attraction additionally didn’t manufacture any declaration that Martin Amaewhule and 24 ORS are nonetheless participants of the RSHA.
“We strongly imagine that the Court docket of Attraction used to be incorrect when it held that the Rivers Atmosphere Top Court docket lacked the jurisdiction to listen to and decide SUIT NO PHC/1512/CS/2024.
“Accordingly, we have now prompt our attorneys and they have got filed an attraction to the Superb Court docket of Nigeria difficult the logic of the Court docket of Attraction delivered at the 4th Month of July, 2024.
“Martin Amaewhule & 24 others, in spite of all their pretences, are no longer members of the Rivers State House of Assembly, and they remain so until a court of competent jurisdiction says otherwise,” Oko-Jumbo mentioned.