Pro Wike Lawmakers Have Ceased To Be Members Of River Assembly – Attorney General

By Ayodele Oni

With conflicting report still on the status of the 27 members of the  Rivers State House of Assembly, the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Dagogo Iboroma, has insisted that the loyalists of ex-governor Nyesom Wike have lost their seats as members of the State parliament.

Iboroma pointed out that the lawmakers, led by the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, had last year defected to the All Progressives Congress, (APC), and are no longer members of the PDP.

Iboroma,  in a statement, stressed that contrary to reports, the Certified True Copy of a Monday judgment by the Rivers State High Court, validated the position that Amaewhule and his colleagues were no longer PDP members and by virtue of that lost their seats as members of the Rivers State House of Assembly.

“The court did not say that Martin Amaewhule is the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, nor did it make a declaration that Martin Amaewhule and 26 others are members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and the Peoples Democratic Party.”

According to him, the court has been painted in a bad light and the public misled and misinformed, adding that whatever finding of fact that is not included in the court order is an Obiter Dictum, which has no binding force.

“Once again, I respectively urge the media to desist from giving any interpretation to any judgment without first reading the content of the judgment and seeking legal advice.”