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A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has dismissed a motion experte order seeking to stop the August, 30th Local Government Council elections in the state.
Presiding Judge, Justice Stephen Jumbo in his ruling in a suit filed by a Port Harcourt based legal Practitioner, Williams Abayomi-Stanley against President Bola Tinubu and Attorney General of the federation, the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC and its Chairman, said the application for motion experte lack merit and thereby dismissed it.
Justice Jumbo however granted motion experte order for substituted service to the defendants but directed that the conduct of the August 30th Local Government Council elections should go ahead as scheduled and adjourned till 10th of September, 2025 for hearing on the substantive suit.
Speaking to newsmen outside the courtroom, counsel to the claimant, Godsent Elewa said his client is in court to seek for interpretation of a section of RSIEC law and Constitution of Nigeria as amended if the president has the legal powers to appoint a Chairman and members of RSIEC to conduct local government council elections in the state.
Elewa while narrating what actually transpired in court that led to the dismissal of his application, welcomed the ruling of the court which also granted one of his motion and expressed his readiness to continue with the proceeding on the next adjourned date.
