The Port Harcourt division of the Court of Appeal, on Monday, struck out two appeals filed by Local Government Chairmen loyal to former governor Nyesom Wike, for lack of merit.
The appeals marked CA/PH/137M/2024 and CA/PH/145M/2024, were filed by Hon. Enyiada Cookey-Gam and six others, challenged the decisions of the lower court in the matters of the elongation of the council leadership tenure.
The Chairman of Opobo Nkoro Local Government Council and six others had dragged the Governor of the State, Siminalayi Fubara, and others to court over the position of the faction of the State House of Assembly led by Martins Amaewhule.
However, a High Court sitting in Rivers State had struck out the amendment seeking extension as being contrary to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended.
THE WHISTLER reported that the chairmen of the local government councils were vacated from office on June 17 at the expiration of their three-year tenure.
The three-man Appeal Court panel, presided over by Justice B. B. Aliyu, upheld the decision of the High Court, refused the extension of the tenures of the Chairmen whose positions expired in June and dismissed the case for lack of merit.A
