Court Bars Rivers Chief Judge from Acting on Assembly’s Impeachment Directive

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has barred the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi, from receiving or acting on any correspondence from the Rivers State House of Assembly relating to moves to impeach Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Nma Odu.

In its ruling, the court restrained the Chief Judge from taking any steps that could advance the impeachment proceedings, pending the determination of the substantive suit before it.

The ruling comes amid a heightened political crisis in Rivers State, following the reinitiation of impeachment proceedings by the Rivers State House of Assembly against Governor Fubara and his deputy, Odu.