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A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt will on March 8, 2024, hear a suit brought forth by Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, in Rivers State against 26 lawmakers, Governor Siminalayi Fubara, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Attorney General of Rivers State. The crux of the matter lies in the CSOs’ quest for the interpretation of Section 109 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. They seek clarification on whether lawmakers in the Rivers State House of Assembly who defected from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC, still retain legal rights to represent…

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