ADC demands legal explanation for Rivers Assembly’s reversal of lawmakers’ vacant seats

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, successful Rivers State has asked the State House of Assembly to explicate the ineligible grounds for reversing its earlier declaration of 3 lawmakers’ seats arsenic vacant, peculiarly aft notifying the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to behaviour by-elections.

The enactment said the reversal, which followed apology letters and explanations from the affected lawmakers, raised questions astir the legislature’s adherence to law provisions and the ineligible ground for changing its earlier decision.

The lawmakers are Hon. Victor Oko-Jumbo, Hon. Sokari Goodboy Sokari and Hon. Timothy Oruibienimigha.

In a connection dated October 20 and signed by its Rivers State Publicity Secretary, Chizy Enyi, the ADC called connected the Speaker of the House, Martin Chike Amaewhule, to publically explicate the circumstances surrounding some the archetypal declaration and its consequent reversal.

The enactment said the improvement raised cardinal questions astir the consistency and independency of the legislature, peculiarly due to the fact that the Assembly had reportedly communicated its archetypal determination to INEC for the behaviour of by-elections.

“The cardinal question is simple: Was the archetypal declaration of vacancy constitutionally valid, oregon was it an unlawful ...