A Federal Excessive Court docket sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has scheduled Could 12, 2025, for the substantive listening to in a go well with filed by former federal lawmaker, Farah Dagogo, difficult the suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, and members of the Rivers State Home of Meeting.
Within the go well with marked FHC/PH/CS/50/2025, Dagogo, additionally a former governorship aspirant within the 2023 basic elections beneath the Peoples Democratic Social gathering, PDP, in Rivers State, approached the court docket on April 9, 2025, in search of reliefs towards the proclamation of a state of emergency in Rivers State and the following suspension of elected state officers.
Listed as defendants within the go well with are President Bola Tinubu, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, the Nigerian Senate, Speaker of the Home of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, and the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas.
On the listening to of a movement ex parte, counsel to the plaintiff, C. I. Enweluzo, SAN, sought depart of the court docket for substituted service of the originating summons and associated court docket processes, citing difficulties in effecting private service on the defendants.
The court docket granted the request.
Justice Adamu Turaki Mohammed, after reviewing an affidavit deposed to by Solomon Ayotamuno, a litigation assistant at Liberty Chambers, and listening to submissions from the plaintiff’s authorized staff, Femi Adegbite, Monday Dayi, Daso Jack, and D. Bakweri, granted the applying for substituted service.
The court docket additionally ordered that listening to notices and different related court docket paperwork be served on the defendants through DHL courier service to their final identified addresses, together with: Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Asokoro, Abuja; the Senate, Nationwide Meeting Advanced, Three Arms Zone, Abuja and Rivers State Authorities Home, Previous GRA, Port Harcourt.
President Tinubu had on March 18, 2025, declared a state of emergency in Rivers State, suspending democratic governance for an preliminary interval of six months.
The president additionally suspended Governor Fubara, Deputy Governor Ngozi Odu, and all elected members of the State Home of Meeting, appointing Ibas as sole administrator.
The motion, subsequently ratified by the Nationwide Meeting, has sparked widespread criticism from political leaders, the Nigerian Bar Affiliation, NBA, Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, civil society organizations, and different curiosity teams.
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