A Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt division, on Monday, June 10, dismissed the suit seeking to vacant the seats of the 25 lawmakers, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The lawmakers had defected to the opposition APC in the state last year, prompting the legal challenge.
But delivering its judgement on Monday, the court presided over by Justice Okogbule Gbasam held that the lawmakers are still members of the PDP, The Nation reported.
The judge ruled that the claimants failed to provide sufficient evidence to convince the court that Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule and the defected lawmakers (the defendants) are members of the APC, The Guardian reported.
This recent development came after the above court on Friday, May 30, declared the seats of the 25 lawmakers, who defected from the PDP to the APC, vacant pending the determination of a suit before it.
The court, however, ordered the Rt. Hon. Martin Amaewhule, to stop parading as the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly and barred the 24 lawmakers, who are all Anti-Siminalayi Fubara, the governor of the state, from posing as lawmakers in the state.
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Source: TimesNow.com.ng
