Simeon C. Amadi, Chief Choose of Rivers State, has declined the request, by the state Home of Meeting, for him to arrange a seven-man panel to probe Siminalayi Fubara, state governor, and Ngozi Odu, his deputy.
The Martin Amaewhule-led Rivers State Home of Meeting, in a letter to the chief choose on Friday January 16, 2026, as a part of an impeachment course of it (Meeting) initiatived on January 7, had urged the CJ to probe allegations of gross misconduct towards the governor and his deputy.
Amadi, on Thursday, in response to the Meeting, which had surfaced on-line, declined the request to arrange the probe panel, giving the explanation why he can’t accomplish that.
The Chief Choose, in a letter to Martin Amaewhule, Speaker of the Meeting on Thursday, acknowledged receiving the Meeting’s letter to arrange the seven-man panel, however stated that he’s restrained by a subsisting Excessive Courtroom order from taking any additional motion.
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Fubara and Odu, in separate courtroom processes, difficult the impeachment course of, had secured injunctions from a Excessive Courtroom, Holden in Port Harcourt, restraining the chief choose from appearing on the Meeting’s request or establishing the probe panel.
In accordance with courtroom paperwork out there, Fubara and Odu had alleged improper service of the impeachment discover.
The Chief Choose’s letter to the Meeting on Thursday additionally signifies that the Speaker and the Rivers State Home of Meeting have already appealed the restraining order by the state Excessive Courtroom, with the enchantment expressly famous in the identical letter.
In the meantime, Amaewhule and the Meeting have remained silent on the event, whereas the CJ’s letter has not been formally launched to the general public.
…Particulars later.
