The Rivers State Caucus in the National Assembly has urged Governor Siminalayi Fubara to implement court judgments affirming Martins Amaewhule and 27 lawmakers as House of Assembly members.
But the state government said Speaker Amaewhule and his colleagues had ceased to be lawmakers.
The caucus members, in company with some former legislators of the state made the call during their solidarity visit to Amaewhule in Port Harcourt yesterday.
Their position on the judgements and interpretations that followed was contained in a document signed by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Kingsley Chinda, Sen. Barinada Mpigi, and Dumnamene Dekor.
The legislators expressed concern over what they described as deliberate distortion of facts and judgments of courts by Fubara.
They accused the governor of procuring the services of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) to deliberately misinterpret the verdicts of courts.
They particularly cautioned one of the SANs, saying he lied about the date of the judgment of Justice J.K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court(FHC), Abuja and a “defection that never took place.”
Justice Omotosho had on January 22 voided the 2024 Rivers State budget okayed by three pro-Fubara lawmakers.
He consequently ordered Fubara to re-present the budget to the legally constituted House led by Amaewhule.
The caucus said: “ It is regrettable that a very senior lawyer of his status will be amplifying the falsehood from non-lawyers and political merchants.
“We wish to warn these false content creators and political merchants that it is very possible to continue to eat from the treasury of Rivers State without tampering with the position of the law, and the intentional misinterpretation of the judgments of courts.”
