A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt has issued an interim injunction, restraining the state’s Chief Judge and the Clerk of the House of Assembly from engaging with the Martins Amaewhule-led Assembly, pending further court orders.
Justice Jumbo Stephen’s order also restrained the Chief Judge and Clerk from recognizing Martins Amaewhule and 26 others as members of the Assembly and from taking any action on their resolutions, impeachment proceedings, or other communications.
The suit marked PHC/2177/CS/2024 was filed by the Attorney General of the State as the first plaintiff and the Governor of the State, Siminialayi Fubara, as the second plaintiff, against Martin Amaewhule and 26 others, as the first set of defendants, and Hon. Victor Oko-Jumbo and others, CJ of the State and Clerk of the State House of Assembly, and the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, as the second set of defendants.
The court further directed all parties involved to preserve the situation as it existed on July 5, 2024, until the court hears and decides on the motion for a temporary injunction.
The court grants a temporary injunction, barring the Chief Judge and Clerk from interacting with Amaewhule and others as Assembly members or acting on their resolutions, impeachment proceedings, or communications, pending a further court order.
The injunction reads: “That the parties to this suit are hereby directed to maintain the status quo ante litem in this suit as of 5th July 2024, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice for the interlocutory injunction already filed herein.
“An order is hereby made for substituted service of the originating and other processes in this suit on the 1st–30th Defendants by pasting the same at Quarters, opposite former NDDC headquarters, off Aba Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State.”
The court scheduled the hearing for the motion on notice for an interlocutory injunction for July 15th, 2024, and adjourned the case until then.
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