BREAKING: Chief Judge of Rivers State, Simeon Amadi Removed

Chief Judge of Rivers State, Simeon Amadi has been suspended with immediate effect.

 

Newsonline Nigeria reports that the former Majority Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Edison Ehie, has suspended the State Chief Judge, Simeon Amadi.

 

This Nigeria news platform recalls that Ehie, who is loyal to the State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, was on Monday morning removed as Majority Leader of the State Assembly by 24 House members out of 32 members said to be loyal to former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike.

 

READ ALSO: Governor Fubara installs loyalist Edison Ehie as Rivers Speaker

 

Wike is the current Minister of the FCT.

 

After his suspension, the eight members loyal to the governor quickly installed Ehie as speaker in a sitting held at the government house, Port Harcourt.

 

He subsequently announced that the Chief Judge had been suspended.