Thursday, July 4, 2024 -The Court of Appeal, Abuja has nullified the expulsion of Martin Amaewhule and 24 others from the Rivers State House of Assembly by the Rivers State High Court.
The Court dismissed the ex parte order
given by the Rivers State High Court, in Port Harcourt, on May 10, 2024
stopping Martin Amaewhule from parading himself as Speaker of the Rivers State
House of Assembly.
The appellate court also dismissed
the decision of the State High Court stopping 24 other members of the Assembly
from accessing the complex or carrying out any such legislative assignment in
the name of the Rivers State House of Assembly.
The appellate court in determining the
issue of jurisdiction of a lower court to hear and also grant and ex parte
order, held that the FederalHigh Court is exclusively and mandatorily the only
court that can hear such matters and not a State High Court, citing section 273
of the Constitution.
The three-man panel led by Justice Jimi Olukayode-Bada therefore upheld the
appeal filed by a factional speaker of the River State House of Assembly,
Martin Amaewhule and 24 others against the Speaker, Victor Oko-Jumbo and two
others.
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