Members of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Rivers State, took to the state’s House of Assembly complex yesterday to stage a peaceful protests demanding the swearing-in of Victoria Nyeche, representing Port Harcourt Constituency 1 and Andrew Miller, representing Opobo/Nkoro constituency as members of the Assembly.
Speaking at the protest, an APC Chieftain Mr Charles Aholu, said the action was to demand for equity and fairness in the state judiciary, wondering why the duo of had not been administered the oath of office as members even after they had been issued certificate of Return by INEC.
It would be recalled that while Miller was absent on April 21 for the swearing-in ceremony of other members, Nyeche could not be sworn in because Mr Livingstone Wechie, a political activist in the state had approached the Rivers State High Court to restrain the assembly from administering the oath of office on her as member.
The interim injunction which was granted by Justice Adolphus Enebeli of the Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt would still be maintained until the issue before the court is resolved.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chairman in the state, Mr Felix Obuah, in his reaction to the protest, accused the APC of trying to destabilize the re-run elections in the state.
He said: “It is now very clear that the APC has devised a new strategy to put the rescheduled re-run elections in the state perpetually on hold to make up for its unpreparedness.
“The ploy include cooking up fallacies and spurious allegations, and using such as basis for state-wide protests against the July 30, 2016 concluding re-run elections in the remaining eight local areas of the state.”
