Rivers Rerun: Court Stops Military Deployment of Soldiers

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Rivers Rerun: Court Stops Military Deployment of Soldiers

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Justice George Omereji of a Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has stopped the Chief of Defence Staff, the Brigade Commander of Amphibious Brigade and the Chief of Army Staff, from deploying military operatives for the re-run elections slated to hold on Saturday in the state. The judge, in a ruling initiated by the state’s chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Felix Obuah and the PDP, held that, “An order of interim order be made and is hereby made restraining , Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of Army Staff, Brigade Commander, 2nd Amphibious Brigade, whether by themselves, their agents, servants, officers and operatives or privies from interfering with the applicants’ right to freely participate in the  government of Nigeria either directly or through free chosen representatives, threatens to arrest, harass, intimidate, torture, incarcerate the applicants and their  members  during  the rerun elections for the State and National Assembly  on  19th March 2016.” The judge hinged his decision on the judgment delivered by the Court of Appeal in the case of the APC and others in 2015 detailing the non-involvement of the Army and the Armed Forces in elections. While further giving an order that the PDP should serve the judgment on the Military for them to comply, the court also declared that, “Leave be and is hereby granted the applicants to issue and serve the originating motion of the jurisdiction of this Honourable court for service on the Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of Army Staff and the Brigade Commander of Second Amphibious Brigade and INEC at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.” 

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