A Federal Excessive Courtroom sitting in Port Harcourt has dismissed a go well with filed by the Labour Celebration in Rivers State difficult the alleged defection of the suspended Speaker of the Rivers State Home of Meeting, Martin Amaewhule, and 26 others.
Delivering judgment on Tuesday, Justice Emmanuel Obile cited a latest Supreme Courtroom determination, which he stated had already addressed the problem of defection raised within the go well with.
The choose held that he lacked the jurisdiction to adjudicate on a matter that had been conclusively decided by the apex court docket.
Counsel to the defendants, Ken Njemanze, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, had in his closing written handle urged the court docket to dismiss the go well with in gentle of the Supreme Courtroom’s ruling, which upheld the legitimacy of the lawmakers.
Nonetheless, Counsel to the Labour Celebration, Clifford Chuku, argued that the problem of defection was a collateral matter within the case determined by the Supreme Courtroom and urged the court docket to not dismiss the go well with.
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