Impeachment: Rivers state Chief Judge decline to set up panel to investigate Gov Fubara

Impeachment: Rivers state Chief Judge decline to set up panel to investigate Gov Fubara

The leader choose of Rivers kingdom, Justice Simeon Amadi, has declined to represent a judicial panel to investigate Governor Siminalayi Fubara, mentioning an present courtroom order restraining such action.

Recall that last week, individuals of the kingdom house of assembly had asked the leader decide to set up a seven-member panel to probe Governor Fubara and his deputy, Ngozi Odu, over alleged gross misconducts which include spending unbudgeted finances from the state coffers.

Justice Amadi’s position used to be conveyed in a proper letter addressed to the Speaker of the Rivers country house of meeting, Martin Amaewhule, acknowledging receipt of 2 separate requests from the legislature dated January 16, 2026.

in keeping with the leader choose, the meeting’s requests were observed with the aid of enormous documentation, consisting of copies of the awareness of allegations of gross misconduct, the Rivers state Impeachment Panel (conduct of Investigations) method, 2025, and relevant newspaper publications.

but, Justice Amadi disclosed that his workplace had earlier been served with 2 meantime injunctions issued by way of the Rivers nation excessive court sitting in Oyigbo on January sixteen, 2026.

The suits—OYHC/6/CS/2026 filed through the Deputy Governor and OYHC/7/CS/2026 filed by Governor Siminalayi Fubara—indexed the Speaker and 32 others as defendants, with the leader judge named as the 32nd defendant.

The intervening time orders expressly restrain the chief choose from “receiving, forwarding, considering or howsoever performing on any request, resolution, articles of impeachment or different communication” from the house of assembly on the subject of the impeachment manner for a period of seven days. licensed genuine copies of the courtroom orders had been attached to the correspondence.