A Human Rights Activist and Legal Practitioner, Festus Ogwuche, has, during an interview on Prime Time, an Arise Television Programme, hinted that Martins Amaewhule and his colleagues may still remain sacked, because the Court of Appeal only determined that the Rivers State High Court did not have the jurisdiction to grant an order restraining them from parading themselves as lawmakers. He added that the case on whether their seats are vacant because of their defection has not been determined.
The Legal Practitioner had said, "I was not expecting that because the issue as you said is very narrow, the High Court of Rivers State by Justice Wali had given an order restraining the Amaewhule-led House of Assembly from parading themselves as Members of the House of Assembly, and all the sundry orders that he made, and these gentlemen were yet to even be put on notice, but when they got wind of the proceedings, they went straight forward to the Court of Appeal for the interpretation of that decision regarding the jurisdiction of the Court to determine that issue; and that's all the Court did today, to determine whether the Lower Court – the High Court of Rivers State has jurisdiction to entertain that matter in the first place; and that is where the issue is. The decision of the Court does not give anybody any unilateral powers or rights to restoration or to change the status quo as it exists right from the onset."
According to a video on Arise Television's YouTube Channel – https://youtu.be/YBDYMCOt3VU?si=cL6zYdIxTxfACAd0
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