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From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
Six stakeholders in 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 a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1718, the plaintiffs are contending that the December 18 agreement was not only illegal but a usurpation, nullification, and undermining of the extant and binding relevant provisions of the 1999 Constitution.
The plaintiffs led by a member of the Rivers State House of Assembly representing Bonny State Constituency, Victor Jumbo, includes Senator Bennett Birabi, Senator Andrew Uchendu, Rear Admiral O. P. Fingesi, Ann Kio Briggs, and Emmanuel Deinma.
They are urging the court to, among orders, determine whether President Tinubu, Governor 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.
In addition, the plaintiffs argued 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 Rivers State lawmakers.
The said lawmakers defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
They listed President Bola Tinubu, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Governor Fubara, the Rivers Assembly, Speaker of the Rivers State Assembly, and the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu as defendants.
