Court orders three Rivers LG Chairmen to justify legitimacy of their elections

A Rivers State High Court has directed the Obio-Akpor, Port Harcourt City, and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Councils, on with their Vice Chairmen and Councillors, to look successful tribunal and amusement origin wherefore their elections should not beryllium nullified.

Justice Stephen Jumbo issued the bid aft including the Chairman of Obio-Akpor LGA, Gift Worlu, and 59 others arsenic the 2nd acceptable of respondents successful a suit filed by 3 Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stakeholders.

Before adjourning the lawsuit to March 17, 2026, for hearing, Justice Jumbo approved an exertion for substituted work by the claimants’ lawyer, Glory Chizim-Chinda, instructing that the tribunal documents beryllium served astatine the State Secretariat of the PDP connected Aba Road.

The claimants, Enyi Uchechukwu, Wisdom Kalio, and Uche Amadi are challenging the State factional PDP Chairman, Aaron Chukwuemeka, the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, the PDP, and the Rivers State Government implicit the information of PDP Chairmen, their deputies, and councillors for the past assembly elections.

They reason that the authorities enforcement led by Chukwuemeka, whose predetermination had antecedently been nullified by the Rivers State High Court, lacked the authorization to taxable campaigner lists to RSIEC for the elections held connected August 30, 2025.

The claimants ...