Ugochinyere: Rivers State council chair’s tenure ends despite Supreme Court ruling

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Rep. Ikenga Ugochinyere affirms that the Supreme Court's awaited judgement on local government autonomy will not extend the tenure of Rivers State local government chairmen, whose terms expire on June 17, 2024. He commends Governor Similanayi Fubara for allowing democratic processes to prevail.

A member of the House of Representatives, Rep. Ikenga Ugochinyere , has said that awaited Supreme Court judgement on local government autonomy will not affect the tenure expiration of local government chairmen in Rivers State on Monday. Ugochinyere, who made this known on Friday, said that the tenure of Rivers State local government chairmen expires in…A member of the House of Representatives, Rep.

Ugochinyere urged the outgoing chairmen to prepare their handover notes ahead of tenure expiration, adding that after Monday anyone found parading himself as a council chairman should be arrested. “If people are thinking that whatever the Supreme Court rules that you as a local government chairman that your tenure has democratically ended can now continue in office because of an extension by lawmakers who have been sacked and then went to a two bedroom apartment in Emoha and amended the local government law and say that local government chairmen, that their tenure is going to democratically expire, can continue their stay in office? That’s not democracy.

“Who are the ones who said they have amended the law? People that were sacked, people that are no longer lawmakers, people that their seat have been declared vacant, people that committed political stupidity when they left their own political party when there was no issue, swore to affidavit before the federal high court that they’ve left PDP as of 11 December 2023, now struggling to come back, they forgot when they were saying on your man we shall stand? Or when the Speaker read their...

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