A Rivers State Excessive Court docket sitting in Port Harcourt has barred the Chief Choose of the state, Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi, from receiving or appearing on any correspondence from the Rivers State Home of Meeting regarding strikes to question Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Nma Odu.
The order was issued by the Excessive Court docket of Oyibo Native Authorities Space, sitting in Port Harcourt, following two separate fits filed by Governor Fubara and his deputy, marked Swimsuit No. OYHC/7/CS/2026 and Swimsuit No. OYHC/6/CS/2026.
Within the interim orders of injunction, the court docket restrained the Speaker of the Rivers State Home of Meeting, Martin Amaewhule, and 32 others—together with the Clerk of the Home and the Chief Choose—from taking any steps in direction of the impeachment course of.
Particularly, the court docket barred Justice Amadi from receiving, forwarding, contemplating or appearing on any request, decision, articles of impeachment or any type of communication from the first to the twenty seventh defendants for the aim of constituting a panel to analyze the alleged misconduct towards the governor and his deputy for a interval of seven days.
The presiding decide, Justice F. A. Fiberesima, gave the ruling whereas granting motions ex parte within the two fits filed by the governor and his deputy.
Justice Fiberesima additionally granted go away to the claimants/candidates to serve the interim orders and originating processes on the first to the thirty first defendants by pasting them on the gate of the Rivers State Home of Meeting Quarters.
The court docket additional directed that the interim orders and originating processes be served on the thirty second defendant, the Chief Choose of Rivers State, via any employees member of the judiciary on the Chief Choose’s Chambers inside the Excessive Court docket premises.
The matter was thereafter adjourned until January 23, 2026, for the listening to of the movement on discover.