CHIEF JUDGE TRANSFERS CASES ON DEFECTION OF AMAEWHULE, OTHERS

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 CHIEF JUDGE TRANSFERS CASES ON DEFECTION OF AMAEWHULE, OTHERS





Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Hon. Justice John Tsoho has responded to the petition before him to transfer some cases already being heard.


The cases included those challenging the defection of Rt. Hon Amaewhule and 24 others of the Rivers State House of Assembly from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.


There had been a petition by a defendant in the matter, Rt Hon. Martins Amaewhule, who had demanded that the cases against him be transferred to another court.


In response, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Tsoho has transfered the cases from Justice Steven Dalyop Pam of the Federal High Court 4, sitting in Port Harcourt who was the trial judge of the cases, to Court Two that is headed by Justice E. O. Obele


The cases were instituted by the BOOT Party and others as plaintiffs in suit number FHC/PHC/269/2024 and another by civil society organisations in Rivers State.


They instituted the cases against Rt Hon Amaewhule and others, all on the defection of the defendants to APC.


It was on Monday, when the court resumed for hearing that it was confronted with the petition that was signed by Rt Hon Amaewhule.


The petition was addressed to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Hon. Justice Tsoho, and it sought the reassignment of the cases to another court.


When he got a copy of the petition, the presiding judge, Justice Pam read it in the open court.


Thereafter, he noted that the petitioner, Rt Hon  Amaewhule, was praying to the CJ of the High Court to stop the hearing process following the petition.


The counsel for the plaintiff, BOOT Party, Mr Reuben Wanogho, after the petition was read, expressed his reservation and insisted that the petition was aimed at arresting the ongoing cases and urged the court to ignore it.


But counsel for the 1st to 25th defendants in the suit, Ferdinand Orbi, denied knowledge of the petition by his client.


He therefore, prayed the court to adhere to the petition and stop further proceeding if the letter was addressed to the CJ of the court.


However, the presiding judge, Justice Pam, noted that in the first instance, the petitioner (Amaewhule) has no motion, or counter affidavit before him and that he is not yet known in the case.




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