Rivers: Court denies LG chairmen preservative order

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday refused to grant a preservative order to stop the new chairmen from being dissolved, while the matter was still in court. Justice Hassan Quadri gave the order following an application by counsel to the 22 chairmen to grant an order to protect them from being
A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday refused to grant a preservative order to stop the new chairmen from being dissolved, while the matter was still in court. Justice Hassan Quadri gave the order following an application by counsel to the 22 chairmen to grant an order to protect them from being dissolved by the state government. Justice Quadri also gave the order following the absence of a counsel to the House of Assembly, who was also a party in the matter, adding that it was necessary to give room for fair hearing. Solicitor-General of the state, Rufus Godwins, who represented the state government and Attorney-General, Emmanuel Aguma, in the matter, had argued that Aguma, who had just been sworn-in as Commissioner for Justice, deserved some time to prepare the state government for the matter. Godwins, who is also Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, prayed the court for a short adjournment, stressing that there was no need for the court to be in a hurry to hear the motion, since the matter was appearing in court for the first time. Counsel to the council chairmen, Adebayo Owonikoko, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, appealed to the court to grant an interim preservative order to protect the chairmen from being dissolved. Owonikoko explained that the council bosses needed to be protected, while the matter was still in court. Speaking to newsmen shortly after the sitting, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Godwins, said the order of the court was justified, especially as his argument was considered for adjournment. Also, Counsel to the chairmen, Owonikoko, said all the parties were not expected to take any action on the matter that would undermine what was before the court. The matter was adjourned till June 24 for hearing on motion. The 22 newly elected chairmen had gone to court to challenge the power of the state governor, Nyesom Wike, to remove them from office.

-National Mirror

Ok na

Wike d terror of Amaechi sack them ALL. Illegally elected LG chairmen.

At least they met an open judiciary where they were able to tender their case, under ameachi, the judiciary was locked for 2 years..rule of law and separation of power has returned to rivers state after the regime of generalissimo rotimi ameachi!!

Dis is a grand plan to destroy ameachi politically, soon baba go give am shocker
*learn not to betray ya blood

Wike enroute to destroying Rivers State! All he seems he feels he was elected to do, is undo all Amaechi policies, whether beneficial to the state or not! Rivers state is in for four years of bumpy ride! At d end they will all miss and appreciate the past Government

Symphony007:
At least they met an open judiciary where they were able to tender their case, under ameachi, the judiciary was locked for 2 years..rule of law and separation of power has returned to rivers state after the regime of generalissimo rotimi ameachi!!

you talk tru!

chadnezzar0worl:
Wike enroute to destroying Rivers State! All he seems he feels he was elected to do, is undo all Amaechi policies, whether beneficial to the state or not! Rivers state is in for four years of bumpy ride! At d end they will all miss and appreciate the past Government

the only people that will miss amaechi are the people of osun

If sacking them will make the state better please do..

spreads mat

Wike is working!!! Haha, Nigerian politics is getting interesting everyday, the cup you use to measure for someone likewise would be used for you! I'm expecting to hear about their sacking very soon, nonsense Amachi followers, una never see anything, the current Governor of a state is the OGA kpata kpata of the state and not the former...let the drum continue to sound proper!

I wonder what ameachi wanted to achieve by holding council election few days to the end of his tenure...

Illegality can not stand in the eye of the law...

How ironic, APC wants a preservative order from the court when in the last 2yrs as the party in power they failed woefully to preserve the integrity of the court, the judges, lawyers and litigants. Since the return of civil rule, Amaechi is one of the biggest beneficiaries of our judicial process and I dare say no one has also done more to bring our judiciary into disrepute like the clown from Ubima. APC in Rivers state should be ashamed of themselves for trying to use the instrumentality of the law to preserve their dubious status when they've denied thousands of innocent Rivers indigines that same right for at least 2yrs

This is the only people that I want Wike to support parking because they came in through an illegal process

My Husband Buhari the Daura President is a failure to MANHOOD.
#Aisha_Buhari_d_Prostitute.

stanech:


the only people that will miss amaechi are the people of osun

Osun People n Aregbese will surely miss Amaechi their father christmas

chadnezzar0worl:
Wike enroute to destroying Rivers State! All he seems he feels he was elected to do, is undo all Amaechi policies, whether beneficial to the state or not! Rivers state is in for four years of bumpy ride! At d end they will all miss and appreciate the past Government

sharrap my friend.... which of amaechi's policies has he destroyed Do not say wah u dunno

fitzmayowa:
I wonder what ameachi wanted to achieve by holding council election few days to the end of his tenure...

Illegality can not stand in the eye of the law...

he achieved his aim nau... signing out 4.5 bn naira to conduct the election and the RISEC chairman said he got only about 2bn..

chadnezzar0worl:
Wike enroute to destroying Rivers State! All he seems he feels he was elected to do, is undo all Amaechi policies, whether beneficial to the state or not! Rivers state is in for four years of bumpy ride! At d end they will all miss and appreciate the past Government

Amaechi's policies? Is keeping d judiciary paralyzed for 1yr+ a policy to be preserved? Or keeping d State Assembly complex under lock? LG elections were not conducted in Rivers State almost throughout Amaechi's tenure yet barely a wk to d end of his tenure he conducts elections that only a handful of people participated in. Even the money appropriated for that purpose has been called into question...and u regard that as a policy to be preserved? Is it not a shame that Amaechi ensured that there was no Chief Judge or President of d Customary Court of Appeal? Even a simple assignment as this one he bungled and that should be maintained?

You should talk when he starts knocking down schools, excavating constructed roads and so on and even then u must be sure that those weren't death traps left behind in the name of Amaechi's policies.
Take it or leave it, Rivers State is a PDP state just as Lagos is APC. It is completely odd for APC to clear 22 out of 23 LGAs at grassroot level so such glaring illegality mist be brought down!

bruno419:
spreads mat

Shift for me abeg

Flush those trojan out of the system fast, they are causing problems in some streets already claiming they are demolishing illegal structures while they came in illegally as chairmen of the LGA's.

fitzmayowa:
I wonder what ameachi wanted to achieve by holding council election few days to the end of his tenure...

Illegality can not stand in the eye of the law...

...beats me too

Wike
Amaechi
Odili

Preservative ke? Dem be salt?

They should be dissolved as soon as possible , Rivers people are tired of this nonsense we need our new governor to get done with them quickly so that the place will be saner.