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The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has struck out a suit challenging the defection of 27 of the Rivers State House of Assembly, TheDay Nigeria reports.

The case, instituted by the Labour Party, sought to have the lawmakers’ seats declared vacant over alleged defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The presiding judge, Justice Emmanuel A. Obile, delivered the ruling on Tuesday.

Obile cited a recent Supreme Court decision, which he said had already addressed the issue of defection raised in the suit.

The judge held that he lacked the jurisdiction to adjudicate on a matter that had been conclusively determined by the apex court.

Martins Nwachukwu, an aide to Speaker Martins Amaewhule—one of the principal defendants in the matter, confirmed the court’s decision via a social media post.

Counsel for the defendants had urged the court to dismiss the suit, citing a recent Supreme Court judgment. They presented a Certified True Copy of the apex court’s decision, which the defendants said reaffirmed the leadership of the Assembly under Amaewhule and noted that Governor Siminalayi Fubara had withdrawn the allegations of defection in a separate case at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Labour Party counsel, Clifford Chukwu, however, argued that the issue of defection remained a “collateral matter” and urged the court to proceed with the case, referencing the body of evidence already before it.

https://thisdaynigeria.news/2025/04/15/breaking-court-strikes-out-defection-suit-against-27-rivers-lawmakers/

The handiwork of the SOLE . Nawa ooo.

LP thought they could reap from where they did not sow.

Gbajue people.

Case that Supreme Court has dismissed since

Labour Party don dey suffer from mental issues.

How will they file case against lawmakers defection when their own party is in shambles and have no seat in the house?

compromised judiciary

No one should quote those Bots

Just read and move on. Help them by not quoting them because you will make them popular.

Quoting them here is like teaching a goat how to read.

I don't understand..... Labour party carry lawmakers go court for Rivers State....

sammy44441:
The handiwork of the SOLE . Nawa ooo.

This is common sense.

The last supreme Court rulings has capped whatever decision any other lower court would make.

No judge at either the State or Federal level would make any pronouncement that is at variance with the SC rulings.

That's how it works.

Hmmm

Already adjudicated by the apex court
Na wa o

The supreme court will one day cause a problem in the country that will be beyond them and will consume them
The supreme court overreach themselves by delving in to matters not before them in order to protect one party which are the defectors or wike camp
This same stupid decision of the supreme court or wike court is what aggravated the situation which eventually lead to the emergency rule in porthacourt
Same method of using the judiciary to outst justice onnoghen former cjn

Salewa97:
Labour Party don dey suffer from mental issues.

How will they file case against lawmakers defection when their own party is in shambles and have no seat in the house?

Like I don't understand oooooh. Wetin concern agbero with overload.

Hmmm

LP and their endless court cases

Christ4ever:
This is common sense. The recent supreme Court rulings has pegged whatever decision any other lower court would make.

So it eeems

Congrats to them.

But what concerns LP with the issue of PDP and APC.

LP should stop wasting their little money on frivolous court cases. They are just wasting their time and money

The Supreme Court made a judgement on a matter that was never brought before them in Appeal.

Then they proceeded to talk about how there was no defection because there was never a house of Assembly..(that's the one and only reason they gave for judging there was no defection.)

Such triviality!
Same manner a Country's Senate would treat a case of Suspending an elected Governor by using a voice vote to determine 2/3rds approval.

Is Nigeria really not a joke??


The same Assembly that were sitting at a section of the assembly complex and ed over 20 bills, a few of which they attempted to rely on to impeach Fubara.


Any way the Supreme Court has always said we must obey them because they are the final.
Not because they are not fallible.

Surely they are fallible,, and there are many circumstances that make them fallible,,,,

In some cases they are genuinely fallible, in other cases they are "willingly" fallible.

If any of these online lawyers had sense, they would have made lots of money from Fubara vs Wike matter. The way they deceived Fubara and his online ers is epic.


-Kiss the truth!

Wetin LP dey find

Salewa97:
Labour Party don dey suffer from mental issues.

How will they file case against lawmakers defection when their own party is in shambles and have no seat in the house?

They No de Mind their Own Problems, even until now,they can't render the Audited s of A Single Party - the Labour Party and they daydreaming that they want Nigeria!
tuee!

Pls wait, the 27 lawmakers are they LP member or what kind of madness is this?

Pls why is it that God just deliberately laid this horrible curse of busy body and waka about on LP? No wonder obi-diot is walking from pillar to post like a mentally challenge man.

The Lawmakers are they your party ? Wetin concern LP with these lawmakers biko

Who LP offended? This is serious curse I swear.

NBA...300 million
How much these lawyers come chop for Fubara head for almost two years now?
If it didn't dey,it didn't dey.How can you be sitting on billions and resources and couldn't win one case?
If PDP had made that silly mistake of giving party leader or party structure, that would have been their end in that state.

InfoGuru118:
https://thisdaynigeria.news/2025/04/15/breaking-court-strikes-out-defection-suit-against-27-rivers-lawmakers/

What happened to ORAL video evidence in court cases?

Destroyed by APC like they have destroyed everything about our country

Is there anything that APC can't destroy, from Borno to Lagos in 26 years and in Abuja federal since 2015?




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBjN4AtP5L8?si=Ntbaa4XihZBtKzF_

you dey APC matter go court.....for dis country!!

Ringstonermasks:
compromised judiciary

Same judiciary that made Obi Governor

If you hear T
You shout PAIN

LP, the party that has no respect for the judiciary. That's how they have been disrespecting the Nigeria laws

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Thieves

They wan enter from backyard