Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Hon. Justice John Tsoho has transferred cases challenging the defection of Rt. Hon Amaewhule and 24 others of the Rivers State House of Assembly from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
There had been a petition by a defendant in the matter, Rt Hon. Martins Amaewhule, who had demanded that the cases against him be transferred to another court.
In response, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Tsoho has transfered the cases from Justice Steven Dalyop Pam of the Federal High Court 4, sitting in Port Harcourt who was the trial judge of the cases, to Court Two that is headed by Justice E. O. Obele
The cases were instituted by the BOOT Party and others as plaintiffs in suit number FHC/PHC/269/2024 and another by civil society organisations in Rivers State.
