Rivers elders drag Tinubu, Fubara, INEC, 27 Lawmakers others to court

Six elders of Rivers State have dragged President Bola Tinubu to the Federal High Court in Abuja, for allegedly compelling Governor Siminilaya Fubara to enter into an unconstitutional agreement.

In online reports, sighted by our Correspondent, the plaintiffs, led by a member of the Rivers State House of Assembly representing Bonny State Constituency, Comr Victor Oko Jumbo , are Senator Bennett Birabi, Senator Andrew Uchendu, Rear Admiral O. P. Fingesi retired, Ms.Ann Kio Briggs and Emmanuel Deinma.

They maintained that the said agreement, which was signed on December 18, was not only illegal,but amounted to an usurpation, nullification, and undermining of the extant/binding relevant provisions of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.

Consequently, they prayed the court to, among other things, determine whether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, and the Rivers State Assembly have the rights and are entitled to enter into any agreement that has the effect of nullifying or undermining the constitutional/legal potency of the provisions of Section 109(I)(g) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.

They contended that neither President Tinubu nor Governor Fubara has the statutory powers to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting fresh elections to replace the 27 former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Lawmakers in Rivers State House of Assembly who defected to All Progressives Congress APC.