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Court Did Not Declare 27 Lawmaker's As Members Of The PDP by Papparassi: 2:58pm On Jun 10
TEXT OF PRESS BRIEFING BY DAGOGO IBOROMA, SAN, RIVERS STATE ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND COMMISSIONER FOR JUSTICE ON MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2024

Gentlemen of the Press

• As Hon. Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and 3rd defendant in SUIT NO DHC/20/CS/2024, my attention has been drawn to a recent judgment. This suit did not seek to declare the seat of Martins Amaewhule and 26 others in Rivers State House of Assembly vacant.

• The suit of the claimants was struck out for want of locus standi and jurisdiction and also for being an abuse of court process which robbed the trial court of jurisdiction to adjudicate on the matter.

• There is misleading news circulating in social media, print and electronic media that Martins Amaewhule & 26 others are members of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Rivers State House of Assembly.

• As you all know, Martins Amaewhule and 26 others defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress on the 11th Day of December, 2023 and stated that much in affidavit evidence deposed to by Martins Amaewhule for himself and on behalf of 26 others in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/1681/CS/2023 before Hon. Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division. The Suit is still pending in court.

• By section 272(3) of the 1999 Constitution as amended, it is only the Federal High Court that can determine whether Martins Amaewhule and 26 others are still members of Peoples Democratic Party and also members of the Rivers State House of Assembly. This much was held by the trial court.

However, you will recall that these is a subsisting order of interlocutory injunction in Suit No.
PHC/512/CS/2024 restraining Martins Amaewhule and his co-travelers from further parading or presenting themselves as law makers in Rivers State pending the determination of the substantive suit, which has not been appealed against till date.

• We urge the public to disregard the news presently making rounds in social, print and electronic media to the effect that Martins Amaewhule and 26 others have been declared as members of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Rivers State House of Assembly.
Re: Court Did Not Declare 27 Lawmaker's As Members Of The PDP by GreyWolf01: 3:00pm On Jun 10
Better.
Re: Court Did Not Declare 27 Lawmaker's As Members Of The PDP by Righthussle: 3:02pm On Jun 10
Make Sim and Wike getat. They're both crooks.
Re: Court Did Not Declare 27 Lawmaker's As Members Of The PDP by Faber(m): 3:19pm On Jun 10
Court in Nigeria have been turned to NURTW...

They talk one today and deny the same day..

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Re: Court Did Not Declare 27 Lawmaker's As Members Of The PDP by Nice2023(m): 3:35pm On Jun 10
They are still battling to be recognised as PDP member first before they can claim to be law makers.

The journey far.

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Re: Court Did Not Declare 27 Lawmaker's As Members Of The PDP by Kelklein(m): 8:37pm On Jun 10
Yet another episode of 'How Politicians use the court to do their biddings'..

Nigerian politicians make a mockery of the Judiciary on a daily basis and the Judicial stakeholders are doing anything about it.. some even enable them.

The courts today adjudicate over political matters than other civil matters because Politics is the biggest business in Nigeria right now.

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