- Rivers state governor Siminalayi Fubara-led government has rejected the ruling of the state high court, saying Speaker Martins Amaewhule and 27 others are members of the PDP
- Dagogo Israel Iboroma, the Rivers state commissioner for justice and attorney general, said the court only dismissed the case for lack of locus standi
- However, the court earlier ruled that the state government could not present evidence that the lawmakers left the PDP for the APC, as claimed in the suit
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Siminalayi Fubara-led Rivers state government has described the report that a state High Court sitting in Port Harcourt delivered a judgment declaring the 27 lawmakers led by Speaker Martins Amaewhule as members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as misleading and false.
