Court fixes date to hear suit challenging PDP candidates’ nomination for Rivers LG polls

A Rivers State High Court successful Port Harcourt has scheduled April 14, 2026, for the proceeding of each pending applications successful a suit instituted by 3 aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, successful the state.

The defendants successful the substance see the factional authorities president of the PDP, Aaron Chukwuemeka; the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC); the PDP; the Rivers State Government; arsenic good arsenic 3 section authorities assembly chairmen, Obio-Akpor, Port Harcourt City, and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, on with their respective vice chairmen and councillors.

The claimants, Enyi Uchechukwu, Wisdom Kalio, and Uche Amadi, are seeking judicial clarification connected whether the Aaron Chukwuemeka-led authorities enforcement committee, whose emergence was nullified by a anterior tribunal judgment, possessed the ineligible authorization to taxable a database of candidates to RSIEC for the precocious concluded section authorities elections.

They further petition the tribunal to find whether the PDP validly nominated candidates done the said enactment for information successful the August 30, 2025 assembly polls.

At the resumed proceeding connected Tuesday, counsel representing the PDP and the affected section authorities councils, astir of whom are Senior Advocates of Nigeria, informed the tribunal that they had lone been served with the originating processes connected March 13, 2...