The velocity of impeachment drive towards Gov Sim Fubara has taken additional sluggish movement because the Excessive Courtroom that stopped the Chief Choose from doing something on the movement has adjourned sin die (indefinitely). The adjournment was on the occasion of the defendants, the Rivers State Home of Meeting.
By this, litigations and courtroom processes must run a pure course of earlier than the Rivers State Home of Meeting dominated by pro-impeachment lawmakers would take again the initiative and earlier than the Rivers State Chief Choose can act.
At this time, January 23, 2026, Florence Fiberesima of the Oyigbo Excessive Courtroom of Rivers State sitting in Port Harcourt adjourned indefinitely the swimsuit filed by Gov Sim Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Ordu, a professor, difficult the impeachment processes towards them by the Speaker and 26 different members of Rivers State Home of Meeting in addition to the Clerk of the Home.
When the matter resumed in courtroom, the lead counsel to Martin Chike-Amaewhule and 27 different Home of Meeting members, S.I Amen, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), knowledgeable the courtroom in regards to the attraction which has been entered and orally utilized the courtroom to cease additional listening to pending the willpower of the attraction.
The oral purposes weren’t opposed by the lead claimants counsel, Paul Orikoro, SAN, and Lawrence Oko-Jaja who’s the counsel to twenty-eight to 30 defendants within the courtroom who’re Oko-Jumbo, Sokari Goodboy, and Orubienimigha Timothy.
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Ruling on the appliance, the presiding Choose, Justice Florence Fiberesima, adjourned until sine die following the proof of two separate appeals which have been entered, a call which she stated will allow the attraction courtroom decide the swimsuit earlier than it.
It might be recalled {that a} Rivers State Excessive Courtroom of Oyibo Native Authorities Space sitting in Port Harcourt had issued an interim order of injunction towards the Speaker of Rivers State Home of Meeting and 32 others together with the Clerk of the Home and Chief Choose of Rivers State.
The order restrained the Speaker and 27 different members of Home of Meeting from forwarding articles of impeachment or different doc or communication to Chief Choose with the only real intention of organising a panel to analyze alleged gross misconduct.
The order additionally restrained the Chief Choose of the state, Simeon Chibuzor Amadi, from receiving, contemplating and or nevertheless performing on any request, decision, articles of impeachment or different doc or communication from first to twenty-seventh defendants for the needs of constituting a panel to analyze the purported allegations of misconduct towards the governor and his deputy for seven days.
