A Calabar-based lawyer, Justice Osai Ahiakwo, has known as on the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC, to conduct one other election for the 27 vacant seats within the Rivers State Home of Meeting following the defection of the lawmakers from the Peoples Democratic Occasion, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, over per week in the past.
In an interview, he stated the occasion ought to provoke the proceedings of making use of to the electoral physique to put aside a date for contemporary election in accordance with the provisions of the Structure and electoral legal guidelines.
He counseled President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his intervention to resolve the Rivers disaster as merely making use of the choice dispute-resolution, ADR, mechanisms in persuading the gladiators to sheath their swords.
He stated the Presisent took a daring step to mitigate the already-heated political ambiance in Rivers State.
“Mr. President’s intervention wasn’t in any manner contravening the provisions of the 1999 Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended),” he stated.
Ahiakwo suggested the gladiators to withdraw all pending instances in courts of legislation, saying as soon as that is carried out, nothing can hold alive the contending points earlier than the court docket of legislation.
“Our authorized system has been in existence even earlier than the declaration of its independence as a nation. We have now a really huge jurisprudence overlaying quite a few points of our collective lives. Instantly the gladiators settle for the withdrawal of the instances in courts, non-litigants not clothed with locus standi can’t cry greater than the bereaved,” he stated.
He acknowledged that no court docket had delivered ultimate judgement within the pending instances earlier than the Honourable Justices, sustaining that neither the Rivers State Excessive Courtroom nor the Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja has concluded the instances earlier than them.
“To the most effective of my authorized information, there is no such thing as a ultimate pronouncements of the courts adjudicating on the legality or in any other case of the mirage of points surrounding the political management tussle in Rivers State.
“What’s perceived as judgment of the court docket is an interlocutory order made by the court docket restraining both the defected lawmakers or the Government Governor of the State equally restraining him from sure actions towards the aggrieved lawmakers pending the ultimate dedication of the civil actions earlier than the court docket,” he stated.