Rivers elders drag Tinubu, AGF, INEC to court, insist agreement imposed on Gov Fubara

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Some elders in Rivers State have taken President Bola Tinubu, Attorney General of the Federation and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, before a Federal High Court in Abuja over an alleged unlawful agreement on the power tussle in the state.

They joined as respondents Governor Sim Fubara, Rivers State House of Assembly, Speaker of the House of the and the chairman of INEC.

Plaintiffs in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1718/2023 are a member of the Rivers State House of Assembly representing Bonny State Constituency, Victor Jumbo, Senator Bennett Birabi, Senator Andrew Uchendu, Rear Admiral O. P. Fingesi, Ann Kio Briggs and Emmanuel Deinma.

Specifically, the elders described the agreement spearheaded by President Tinubu as unlawful agreement as ut was imposed on the governor in the bid to resolve the political crisis in the state.

They also said the agreement, signed on December 18, was not only illegal but amounted to an usurpation, nullification and undermining of the extant/binding relevant provisions of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.

They are praying the court to, among other things, determine whether President Tinubu, Governor Fubara and the Rivers State Assembly have the right and are entitled to enter into any agreement that has the effect of nullifying or undermining the constitutional/legal potency of the provisions of Section 109(I)(g) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.