Justice Okogbule Gbasam of the Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt, has thrown out a legal action seeking to vacant the seats of the 25 lawmakers, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The judge held that the lawmakers are still members of the PDP after the claimants failed to provide proof as required by law that the defendants are members of the APC.
It would be recalled that a Rivers State High Court, Port Harcourt on Friday, May 30, declared the seats of the 25 lawmakers, who defected from the PDP to the APC pending the determination of a suit before it.
The court then ordered Martin Amaewhule to stop parading as the Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly and barred the 24 lawmakers, who are all Anti-Siminalayi Fubara, the governor of the state, from posing as lawmakers in the state.
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