Amaechi Suffers Defeat At Appeal Court

MINISTER of Transportation, Mr Chibuike Amaechi, yesterday, suffered defeat at the Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as the court upheld the judgment of the state ‘s High Court, which threw out his suit challenging the constitution of a Judicial Commission of Enquiry to probe the sale of valued assets when he was governor of the state. It will be recalled that on assumption of office, Governor Nyesom Wike had constituted a commossion to probe the sale of valued assets of the state by Amaechi while he was governor of the state.

Amaechi, on his part, had approached the Rivers State High Court, in Port Harcourt, challenging the action of the government. Justice Amadi of the Rivers State High Court in his ruling, held that Governor Wike acted within the confines of the law to have revisited the circumstances under which those assets were sold, a development which prompted the former governor to go on appeal. A unanimous judgment of the Appeal Court, yesterday, read by Justice F. O. Omoleye, dismissed Amaechi’s appeal, saying that the Judicial Commission of Enquiry was properly constituted by Governor Wike...
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