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Rivers: Law does not recognise any sitting outside assembly complex

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A human rights activist, Femi Falana, has said any sitting by the Rivers State House of Assembly outside its complex is not recognised by the law. Falana stated this while speaking about the political crisis in Rivers on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, monitored by DAILY POST.

DAILY POST recalls that the state governor, Similanayi Fubara, on Friday issued an executive order for the immediate and temporary relocation of the sitting of the Rivers State Assembly to the Auditorium, Admin Block of the Government House, Port Harcourt. In an official Gazette, Executive Order of the Rivers State Government 001-2023, Fubara cited the unsafe state of the House of Assembly complex.

The House is independent of the executive, so the governor cannot tell the house where to sit. “This was very clear in the Oyo State case, which led to the impeachment of Governor Ladoja, whereby, under the influence of the late Chief Lamidi Adedibu, the House was alleged to have sat in a hotel and the Supreme Court made that point abundantly clear that an impeachment carried out in a hotel deviates clearly from the Constitution.

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