The Chief Judge of Rivers State, Justice Chibuzor Simeon Amadi, has responded to a request from the Rivers State House of Assembly to constitute a seven-member panel to investigate allegations of gross misconduct against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu.
The Chief Judge, in a leaked letter, said he was legally restrained from acting on the request because of subsisting interim injunctions issued by the High Court on 16 January 2026 in two separate suits filed by the governor and his deputy.
The court orders barred the chief judge from receiving, processing, considering, or acting on any impeachment-related request or communication from the House of Assembly pending further determination of the cases.
Amadi, in the letter, said he was listed as the 32nd defendant in the suits and that the interim court orders were duly served on his office.
He harped on the supremacy of constitutionalism and the rule of law, insisting that all authorities were bound to obey court orders until they were set aside.
The chief judge acknowledged that the House of Assembly and the Speaker were already at the Court of Appeal challenging the order.
He said he would only act on the requests if the orders of the court were vacated.
Source; The Nation News
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