A Excessive Court docket sitting in Rivers State has adjourned, with no return date, the authorized battle over the impeachment strikes towards Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, Professor Ngozi Nma-Odu.
The court docket, presided over by Justice Florence Fiberesima on the Oyigbo Division in Port Harcourt, ordered that the matter be placed on maintain indefinitely.
The choose made the choice after confirming that two separate appeals linked to the case have already been correctly filed earlier than the Court docket of Attraction.
Justice Fiberesima defined that the suspension would enable the appellate court docket to first decide the problems positioned earlier than it.
In response to her, continuing with the case on the Excessive Court docket degree may intrude with the appeals already entered.
The go well with was filed by Governor Fubara and his deputy to problem the impeachment steps initiated towards them. The respondents within the case embrace the Speaker of the Rivers State Home of Meeting, Martin Amaewhule, 26 lawmakers of the Meeting, and the Clerk of the Home.
Earlier than the newest ruling, the identical court docket had issued an interim order aimed toward halting the impeachment course of. The order barred the Speaker, the lawmakers, and different named events from forwarding articles of impeachment or associated paperwork to the Chief Choose of Rivers State.
The court docket additionally restrained the Chief Choose, Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi, from receiving or performing on any impeachment-related communication.
This restriction lined any try to represent a panel to analyze allegations of gross misconduct towards the governor and his deputy inside the interval said by the court docket.
The injunction was granted to take care of the established order and stop additional motion whereas the authorized points have been being examined. It utilized to a number of officers concerned within the impeachment course of, together with the management of the Home of Meeting.
With the case now adjourned sine die, all events are anticipated to await the result of the appeals at present earlier than the Court docket of Attraction.