₦airaland Forum

Hoelujohn:
Someone was arrested for suspected murder. He confessed on Camera that he committed the crime and gave his reasons. There was nobody that actually saw him carrying the act, it was just based on his declaration. The judge sentenced him despite no concrete proof of him committing the act. Do you think the judge was wrong?

phantom:
RIVERS ASSEMBLY CRISIS: FALANA FAULTS AMAEWHULE SITTING

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has faulted Monday’s sitting of the Martin Amaewhule-led Assembly.

On Monday, the Martin Amaewhule-led Assembly held a sitting at the State Assembly official quarters along Aba Road, Port Harcourt. The house leader, Major Jack, displayed copies of last week’s Appeal Court judgment and that of Justice Omotosho, which ruled in their favor in January, recognizing Mr. Amaehule as the speaker. They issued a seven-day ultimatum to Governor Siminalayi Fubara to present the 2024 budget to them. Mr. Amaewhule read a letter that they plan to send to the governor. In the letter dated 8 July, they barred the government from spending from the state’s Consolidated Revenue Fund. They accused the governor of breaching some sections of the 1999 Constitution and the Rivers State Local Government Amended Law 2023, among others. They said the governor’s dealings with and recognition of the Assembly, made up of the said suspended lawmakers, constituted gross misconduct and abuse of office.

But Mr. Falana said Amaewhule and his colleagues were no longer lawmakers in Rivers State following their defection last year. The lawyer said they can only return as lawmakers if reelected. “Twenty-five of them, if they claim they are legislators and they pass any bill, anybody can go to court and challenge it, unless they want to have some political solutions and the political solution will mean that those who have left should go back to the electorate for renewal of their mandate. Once you decamp, you automatically lose your seat, you have to go and test your popularity before the electorate,” Falana said. “Are they saying they are still members of PDP or what?”

Mr. Falana also said the Court of Appeal only ruled on the jurisdiction of the State High Court and not on the status of Martin Amaewhule and others. He said the Appeal Court ruling does not mean they could now carry out their legislative duties as lawmakers. “The Court of Appeal did not say that they remain lawmakers; because they had left their seats, it’s automatic,” Mr. Falana asserted. “The Court of Appeal simply said the State High Court had no jurisdiction in the matter and the case was struck out. The court did not say, ‘You will hereby remain legislators in Rivers State’. No! That Judgement did not say, ‘You are, hereby, restored.’ The Court of Appeal couldn't have done that because the matter of their membership of the House was not before the Court of Appeal. Unless they can get a Judgment from the Federal High Court, saying you ‘remain Legislators’, they have gone!”

Monday’s sitting followed last Wednesday’s ruling of the Court of Appeal, which dismissed a State High Court ruling that sacked them as members of the Rivers State House of Assembly. Recall that Mr. Amaewhule and 25 others defected from the PDP to the APC on 11 December 2023, citing division in the PDP as a reason. But the PDP said there was no division. Three cases are in court seeking the court to interpret Section 109, Subsection G, of the Nigerian Constitution, which states that lawmakers lose their seats when they defect. No court has ruled on their status so far. One of the cases is due to be heard on 17 July.

Ttipsy:
Say no to open grazing!

gistray:
Show me on Ika and Ukwani that looks like a fallen demon 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡

gistray:
Ned Nwoko didn't marry this angel by mistake.

Anioma and Igbo are from same mother and father.

You evil Nigerian war drifted us apart

Wahabfuture:
Is this your new format? courtesy of Agbado Whatsapp group

gistray:
No be only your brothers.
They rejected you and they'll forever reject you.

No one from Ika and Ukwani look like this

Mbanda:
The bolded is not in your hands my little boy. Secondly, do I need to tell you that your rants and hateful opinion ends here on nairaland?

Cj4charles:
Compare to the one in Oshogbo, Osun and the rest

Mbanda:
paraman is among those campaigning against the Igbo state.

gistray:
Paraman how's your day going?

Mynd44
Seun
Lalasticlacla

Realtruth2023:
Oga stop trying to be shifty, Enugu is far better that your own place that you are talking about.

Melagros:
Hello...did I hear you loud and clear?

Do you love LGBTQ in Nigeria?

YouAreNobody:
Compare Ebonyi to Ekiti State and you'll see SW is a shithole.

billyG:
Imagine 9jeria join in d same sentences with a small & relatively unknown cun3.

billyG:
Wetin b this Samoa Samoa na cun3 name.

DMerciful01:
But not super and flamboyantly rich...Dino melaye a good example...only 4 years as a senator he made billions if not trillions of naira.

DMerciful01:
Lack of cheque and balance.

anihen:
Agba keeps looking for trouble so that he will always be in the news.
I really don't know what he hopes to achieve with this irritating attitude.

DMerciful:
When Obi becomes president in 2027, he would correct this nonsense

ThumbzTNA:
My question is: Which region will Tinubu get his vote from


South East: Definitely Not

South South: Hell No

North Central: I live in the North Central so I can tell you authoritatively that the Middle Belters look at Tinubu as a thief and power monger. They neither trust him nor will vote for him

South West: He will share votes. Because although he has a lot of supporters in the SW, a lot of SW people dislike and distrust him.

North West: Have never voted for anyone who isn't Fulani since 1999

North East: Won't vote for him either. Will treat him how they treated Awolowo and Abiola. Used and dumped

Intergrated:
do you even make sense at all?

Franking:
Half illiterate. Ask somebody to edit for you. Olodo.

Ojuntana:
Why are you always supporting corrupt acts as long as it's APC