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<strong>… Supreme Court dismisses suit challenging tribunal’s jurisdiction</strong><br />
<strong>• I was not sacked –Speaker</strong><br />
<br />The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the Rivers State Governorship 
Election Petition Tribunal has territorial jurisdiction to sit in Abuja 
following perceived security challenges in the state.<br />
The tribunal on Monday dismissed a preliminary objection raised by 
Governor Nyesom Wike on its territorial jurisdiction  and the failure of
 the President of the Court of Appeal to consult the Rivers State Chief 
Judge and President of the Customary Court of Appeal before constituting
 the tribunals. Dissatisfied, Wike approached the appellate court.<br />
In a lead judgment read by Justice Sanusi  (JSC), yesterday the Supreme 
Court held that the president of the Court of Appeal had the powers to 
transfer the sitting of the tribunal to Abuja to safeguard the lives of 
the judges and their staff.<br />
The Supreme Court also ruled that in view of the fact that Rivers State 
had no Chief Judge or Customary Court of Appeal, there was no 
possibility for the president to have consulted them before the 
constitution of the tribunals.<br />
In his reaction, Wike described the judgments of the Rivers State 
Election Tribunals, sitting in Abuja, which nullified his election and 
those of some state lawmakers, and that of Supreme Court, as ‘judicial 
terrorism against him’.<br />
Wike, who spoke through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, 
Opunabo Inko-Tariah said: “What is going on right now, can best be 
described as judicial gang-up against Wike, nay, the people of Rivers 
State. It is an affront on democracy and a blight disregard for the will
 of the people, as evinced in the April 11 general elections.”<br />
Meanwhile, Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) 
yesterday hailed the Supreme Court’s verdict on Governor Nyesom Wike’.<br />
Mr. Chris FineBone, Publicity Secretary of the party in the state, said 
in a statement in Port Harcourt that the apex court affirmed that the 
tribunal’s sitting was moved to Abuja because of insecurity.<br />
“As a party, the APC is grateful that all seven eminent jurists of the 
Supreme Court unanimously agreed that there was sufficient violence 
before, during and after the elections to justify the relocation of the 
tribunal to Abuja.’’<br />
It also commended the reason for the relocation of the tribunal to 
Abuja, which was to safeguard the lives of the tribunal chairman, 
members and witnesses.<br />
However, Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Ikuinyi-Owaji 
Ibani, has stated that the Elections Petitions Tribunal sacked neither 
him, nor any member of the Assembly on Monday.<br />
Ibani’s statement yesterday, was on the heels of the judgment of the 
tribunal, which nullified his election and that of 20 lawmakers of the 
state Assembly.<br />
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