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Cites Courts Ruling
- Safiu Kehinde
Rivers State Chief Judge, Justice Chibuzor Simeon Amadi, has turned down the state’s House of Assembly directive to set up a seven-man panel to investigate the allegations of gross misconduct levelled against Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his deputy Prof., Ngozi Ordu.
Justice Amadi made this known in a letter tendered to Assembly and shared on X on Thursday.
As contained in the letter dated 20th of January 2026 and addressed to the Rivers House of Assembly Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, the Chief Judge attributed his rejection of the directive to two court orders which barred him from appointing a panel.
He noted that his office is in receipt of two separate court orders of interim injunction served on the 16th of January.
Amadi held that the court orders barred him from establishing the panel.
He cited a similar case of a former Council Chairman in Kwara State, Dele Abiodun, and the Chief Judge of the state who in 2007 defied court’s order to setting up an investigation panel to probe the suspended former Chairman of Ekiti Local Government Area.
Amadi noted that the Chief Judge’s decision was condemned by the Court of Appeal with the entire investigation process declared void.