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BREAKING: Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Chibuzor Simeon Amadi, declines to set up a seven-man panel to investigate the allegations of gross misconduct levelled against Governor Sim Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Ordu, citing two court orders which barred him from appointing a panel.

Justice Amadi also noted that the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Martins Amaewhule, has already filed an appeal against the court orders at the Court of Appeal.

Rivers chief judge refuses setting up panel to probe Fubara

The Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Simeon Amadi, has declined to set up a judicial panel to investigate Governor Siminalayi Fubara, citing a court order.

The Rivers State House of Assembly had requested that Amadi set up a seven-member panel to probe Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Odu, over allegations of gross misconduct.

However, in a letter dated January 20 and addressed to the Speaker of the House, Martins Amaewhule, the chief judge cited two court orders barring him from receiving, forwarding, or considering any requests to form such a panel.

The judge stated that the orders were served on his office on January 16, 2026 and remain in force.

The chief judge emphasised that constitutionalism and the rule of law require all authorities to obey subsisting court orders, irrespective of their perception of the orders’ validity.

He referenced legal precedents, noting that in a similar case in 2007, the Chief Judge of Kwara State was condemned for ignoring a restraining court order when setting up an investigative panel, a decision later voided by the Court of Appeal.

Justice Amadi further observed that the Speaker has already filed an appeal against the court orders at the Court of Appeal, adding another layer to the ongoing legal proceedings surrounding the allegations.

“By the doctrine of ‘lis pendens’, parties and the court have to await the outcome of the appeal,” he said.

Justice Amadi further stated that the existence of the injunctions and the pending appeal had effectively tied his hands.

“In view of the foregoing, my hand is fettered, as there are subsisting interim orders of injunction and appeal against the said orders. I am therefore legally disabled at this point from exercising my duties under Section 188(5) of the Constitution in the instant,” he said.

The chief judge appealed to the lawmakers to recognise the legal constraints surrounding the matter.

Justice Amadi, therefore, urged the state assembly to be “magnanimous enough to appreciate the legal position of the matter."

https://punchng.com/breaking-rivers-chief-judge-refuses-setting-up-panel-to-probe-fubara/#google_vignette

This is the only sensible thing to do. All parties will now go back to court and argue their case till it is decided by the Supreme Court. Since party primaries should be concluded by June or so, APC candidate would have been settled before the case is decided.

The matter get as e be ooo.
Na court them go dey until primary election, then we go know who really get the backing of Jagaban.
Whether Fubara will be given the Ambode treatment or Wike will be given the El Rufai treatment. Na to wait and see.

No Be Juju Be Dat?

This is deeply serious.

But I trust Wike, he go wait for the Madam of a governor at S.Court

seunmsg:
This is the only sensible thing to do. All parties will now go back to court and argue their case till it is decided by the Supreme Court. Since party primaries should be concluded by June or so, APC candidate would have been settled before the case is decided.

Already throwing Wike under the bus so fast? Is he no longer your favourite? You condoned all his excesses when the going was good. Anyways, don't come back crying when Wike begins his retaliation because he certainly will.

Abeg wetin concern Amadioha Chief Priest wey siddon jeje for e oracle for this matter?

More interesting bumps ahead..
With upcoming Ward, LGA and State APC congress coming soon, we all will know what lies ahead for Fubara in Rivers State.

Wike is own his own. The end of his political areer at hand. We shall be here to laugh.

Speaker wan be governor through the back door 🚪as powered by 40 years whiskey customer.


Dem go scratch ya dick for concrete.

After the reaggae play the blues

This matter will go all the way to the supreme court

immaculatesense:
The matter get as e be ooo.
Na court them go dey until primary election, then we go know who really get the backing of Jagaban.
Whether Fubara will be given the Ambode treatment or Wike will be given the El Rufai treatment. Na to wait and see.

No Be Juju Be Dat?

The juju of Modu's curse on the wicked, ologogoro land grabber of FCT

anonimi:
"Wike and Fayose have brought shame to PDP" -Ali Modu Sheriff

According to him, he will restructure the PDP in such a way that Wike and Fayose cannot contain because they have brought “shame” to the party.
Read what he said below

“I will engineer a restructuring of the PDP such that characters like Wike and Fayose cannot find a way through to attain any position of prominence in our party in the future. They have brought shame and agony through the application of their crude and godless politics which is at variance with the principles upon which our founding fathers built our great party.

We must find a way to sieve things so that only men of character and integrity can come through for positions of responsibility at all levels of our political engagement in the country. We must urgently steer the ship of PDP clear of the path of infamy which Wike and Fayose have brought our party, making Nigerians to mistake PDP as a training ground for thugs.

That is the urgent task we have. We cannot continue to advertise thug brand and expect Nigerians to take us seriously”.

https://igberetvnews.com/349783/wike-and-fayose-have-brought-shame-to-pdp-ali-modu-sheriff/#forward

It's going to be a very long battle.

The impeachment is dead on arrival

Savedday2:
This is deeply serious.

But I trust Wike, he go wait for the Madam of a governor at S.Court

What is there to trust about the beggarly ragamuffin

The man who got rid of Obi to help Tinubu elongate APC extreme poverty shege on 200 million Nigerians!

anonimi:
Wike lobbied PDP committee to be Atiku’s running mate – Ex-gov’ship aspirant

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:33:04 WAT

Muazu Magaji, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State, has alleged that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lobbied members of the party’s committee constituted to advise the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the choice of his running mate.

Magaji disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, on Thursday.

The Kano politician also argued that there was no proof that Atiku promised Wike the vice president position as claimed.

The PDP committee had recommended the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Wike.

The committee, however, scored Wike above the other two contenders but Atiku decided to settle for Okowa. A decision that has since unsettled Wike’s camp.

Magaji, however, claimed that Wike lobbied to be scored ahead of others, adding that the Rivers State governor should not be trusted with important positions in the country.

https://dailytrust.com/wike-lobbied-pdp-committee-to-be-atikus-running-mate-ex-govship-aspirant/

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2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury

Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.

One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.

Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.

https://www.thecable.ng/2023-pdp-and-politics-of-healing-wikes-self-inflicted-injury/amp

ddippset:
Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.

Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku.
He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.


He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party..
Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.

This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.

He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.

Political gladiators from APC leading by progress gov, will jam forces with minors from Rivers, at appeal and supreme, from there lunatic of rivers will now realise, he is powerful because of a tyrant on the throne, allocated small part of his executive powers for him to use as he wants.

Indeed power intoxicates!

Thanks for bringing this topic again to front page so that wike zo-mbs will see it. I love their cries.

Rivers state politics is something else.

bolaayenimo:
The impeachment is dead on arrival

For where. No Arm of government can stop order from performing is duty

bolaayenimo:
The impeachment is dead on arrival

For where. No Arm of government can stop other from performing is duty.

Well the game is the game

Ibroibadan:
For where. No Arm of government can stop order from performing is duty

Ideally
Reality is a different ball game

So after supreme court what will b next will fubara b impeached

This chief judge is rather talking too much about those riff raffs called Wike boys.
Just tell them to shut up their mouth and get out because they have no loco standi whatsoever to impeach the incumbent governor, SIM.

God really saved Fubara that he decamped to APC...

seanfer:
More interesting bumps ahead..
With upcoming Ward, LGA and State APC congress coming soon, we all will know what lies ahead for Fubara in Rivers State.

When he is the 001 of the state ?

Abeg rest

Politics made in Rivers

Wike someday will wither and will be found no more in this sphere.

No man be God and shouldn't no man act supreme on other.
That's my philosophy




In all, may Fubara succeed

Next is to drag the matter upto supreme court

Now is the long bal and a long rob. Play the waiting game.

Chinonye2022:
So after supreme court what will b next will fubara b impeached

If supreme vacates Ex Parte order, it will now come to high court to hear substantial case ,that is, if CJ should form panel or not, before they conclude the case, it will reach 2030.