A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has
ruled that it has
the jurisdiction to entertain the suit filed by Rivers State Governor,
Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, challenging his suspension from the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP). For commencement of hearing, Presiding judge Justice Emmanuel Ogbuji also adjourned the matter till July 8.
The party’s National Working Committee had on May 27 suspended
Amaechi, who was recently re-elected as chairman of Nigerian Governors’
Forum (NGF), over his refusal the reverse the suspension of Obio/Akpor
Local Government Council executive council.
The ruling followed two different motions filed by Mr. Donald Den
Wigwe and Mr. Emmanuel Ukala, counsels to the PDP and its state
chairman, Hon. Felix Obuah, respectively, challenging the jurisdiction
of the court to entertain the matter.
Both Wigwe and Ukala insisted that whenever an issue of jurisdiction
is raised by respondent/applicants, the court must first determine it
before entertaining any other issue before it.
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