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Local government chairmen and councillor’s in Rivers State, elected under former Governor Rotimi Amaechi in 2015 have warned against the conduct of local government elections in the state as announced by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission.
The removed chairmen and councillor’s said there is a pending matter before the Appeal Court over their removal, stressing that any attempt to conduct the local government election will amount to contempt of court.
This comes a week after the faction of the APC led by Senator Magnus Abe declared preparedness for the forthcoming council elections.
Factional Chairman of the group, Golden Ben-Chioma, who took over mantle of leadership from Igo Aguma, said the party was ready to impact politically in the state, having suffered backwardness for years due to leadership crisis.
By Adedayo Akinwale
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has described as ‘sanity restored’, the Court of Appeal’s judgement, Tuesday that sacked Igo Aguma as the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party in the state.
The party also expressed lack of confidence in the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) to conduct free, fair and credible local government elections in the state.
The Caretaker Chairman of the party, Isaac Abott-Ogbobula, stated yesterday, while addressing reporters in Port Harcourt.
Ogbobula said the judgement sends a signal to the lower courts to stop meddling into internal affairs of a political party.
Paulinus Nsirim
Our attention has been drawn to an article titled: “Judiciary and the Future of Our Democracy, By Eddy Odivwri, published in Thisday Newspaper of December 25, 2020.
This write-up by Mr. Eddy Odivwri was excellent, almost to the point of being seminal in its critical appraisal of our judiciary and the future of our democracy, until the interloping and completely out of kilter imposition of the section sub-headed “Wike and Judicial Conjugation”, in which Odivwri attempted what can best be described as a totally jaundiced interpretation of the healthy relationship between Governor Nyesom Wike and the Rivers State Judiciary.
For starters, the title, “Wike and Judicial Conjunction” tends to suggest a kind of dubious marital connivance between the Rivers State Governor and the State’s Judiciary, but what Odivwri cleverly and deliberately omits is the fact that Governor Nyesom Wike himself is a lawyer and a member of the Nigerian Body of Benchers. His relation