Don’t Heat Up Rivers Polity, APC To Fubara

The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Rivers has charged Gov. Siminalayi Fubara to refrain from acts capable of escalating the political crisis rocking the state.

The state Caretaker Committee Chairman
of the party, Tony Okocha, gave the charge at a news briefing in Port Harcourt.

Okocha was reacting to the exparte order granted to the factional Speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr Ediso Ehie, restraining two PDP lawmakers, Martin Amaewhule and Dumle Maol, from disobeying the order relocating the conduct of the assembly’s “activities and meetings” to a more secure place.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Amaewhule and Maol still lay claim to the Speakership and Deputy Speakership of the house.

The exparte order was granted by a Port Harcourt High Court, presided over by Justice M.W. Danagogo.

The order also restrained Amaewhule from “disrupting and interferring” with Ehie’s activities, pending the determination of the motion on notice.

The court also warned against the use ofThe court ordered the relocation of the house “to a secure and more conducive environment to ensure that the activities and meetings of the house are not disrupted during the period of the renovation of the burnt building, pending the determination of the hearing of the motion already filed”.

Ehie had been conducting the activities of the house outside the assembly complex, after it was torched on the night of October 29. thugs and Police by Amaewhule to forcefully gain access into the premises of the state House of Assembly Complex.

The court ordered the relocation of the house “to a secure and more conducive environment to ensure that the activities and meetings of the house are not disrupted during the period of the renovation of the burnt building, pending the determination of the hearing of the motion already filed”.

Ehie had been conducting the activities of the house outside the assembly complex, after it was torched on the night of October 29.