Court to decide fate of three Rivers LG Chairmen June 3

The destiny of the chairmen of 3 Local Government Areas successful Rivers State volition beryllium decided on June 3, 2026, arsenic the Rivers State High Court prepares to present judgement successful a suit challenging the validity of their emergence.

The affected section authorities areas are Obio/Akpor, Port Harcourt City and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni.

The suit was instituted by 3 aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, successful Rivers State against the factional authorities president of the party, Aaron Chukwuemeka, the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, the PDP and the Rivers State Government.

Presiding judge, Justice Stephen Jumbo of the Rivers State High Court sitting successful Port Harcourt, fixed the day for judgement aft counsel representing the parties adopted their last written addresses connected some the preliminary objections and the originating summons.

Although the Rivers State Government did not record immoderate process oregon follow immoderate code successful the matter, the tribunal had earlier granted an exertion for hold of clip filed by the plaintiffs.

The claimants, Enyi Uchechukwu, Wisdom Kalio and Uche Amadi, are asking the tribunal to find whether the Chukwuemeka-led authorities enforcement of the PDP, whose congresses were antecedently nullified by the court, had the ineligible authorization to taxable a database of candidates to RSIEC for...