The Chief Choose of Rivers State, Justice Simeon Amadi, has declined to represent a judicial panel to research Governor Siminalayi Fubara, citing an current courtroom order restraining such motion.
The Rivers State Home of Meeting had requested the chief choose to arrange a seven-member panel to probe Governor Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Odu, over allegations bordering on gross misconduct.
Nevertheless, a reputable supply accustomed to the event disclosed on Wednesday that there was no risk of the chief choose acceding to the request, as he’s certain by a subsisting order of the Rivers State Excessive Courtroom.
Based on the supply, the courtroom order, issued by a Excessive Courtroom sitting in Port Harcourt, particularly talked about the chief choose and directed him to not take any motion that might contravene the ruling.
“The state Excessive Courtroom has issued an order through which the identify of the Chief Choose was talked about. He can’t disobey the regulation; he should do precisely what the courtroom says,” the supply stated.
The supply added that whereas there’s a risk that the faction of the Meeting led by Speaker Martins Amaewhule might enchantment the courtroom ruling, the present order stays binding.
“There’s a risk that the Amaewhule group might go on enchantment, however the reality stays that the Chief Choose has been ordered by the Excessive Courtroom to not do something opposite. If there was no courtroom order, I can let you know sincerely that the Chief Choose wouldn’t have any choice however to arrange the investigative panel,” the supply added.
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