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Court To Decide Fate of 3 Rivers LG Chairmen by June 3rd
The fate of the chairmen of three Local Government Areas in Rivers State will be decided on June 3, 2026, as the Rivers State High Court prepares to deliver judgment in a suit challenging the validity of their emergence.
The affected local government areas are Obio/Akpor, Port Harcourt City and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni.
The suit was instituted by three aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State against the factional state chairman of the party, Aaron Chukwuemeka, the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, the PDP and the Rivers State Government.
Presiding judge, Justice Stephen Jumbo of the Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, fixed the date for judgment after counsel representing the parties adopted their final written addresses on both the preliminary objections and the originating summons.
Although the Rivers State Government did not file any process or adopt any address in the matter, the court had earlier granted an application for extension of time filed by the plaintiffs.
The claimants, Enyi Uchechukwu, Wisdom Kalio and Uche Amadi, are asking the court to determine whether the Chukwuemeka-led state executive of the PDP, whose congresses were previously nullified by the court, had the legal authority to submit a list of candidates to RSIEC for the just-concluded local government elections.
They are also seeking the court’s interpretation on whether the PDP validly submitted candidates to RSIEC through the Chukwuemeka-led executive, thereby enabling the party’s candidates to participate in the August 30, 2025, local government elections.
Edo North senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has playfully called out Senate President Godswill Akpabio for breaching truce over ‘massaging women’s legs’ comment.
At plenary on Thursday, Oshiomhole said he signed a truce of no more hostilities, stating that Akpabio breached the agreement by reverting to previous matters.
DAILY POST reports that Akpabio had mocked Oshiomhole over the viral video allegedly showing him massaging a woman’s leg aboard a private jet.
The Senate President stated that the Senate initially ignored the footage because it was suspected to have been generated using artificial intelligence, AI.
Recall that a video which surfaced on X on February 3, 2026, sparked widespread reactions after it allegedly showed the former Edo State governor massaging a woman’s leg inside a private jet, days later the lawmaker debunked the video stating that it was AI.
Joking over it at the plenary, Oshiomhole said, “I want to report to this house that the senate president and I we signed a truce of no more hostilities and senate president breach the truce by reverting to previous matter, the truce stands, you should not violate, I will not violate.”
Responding, Akpabio said, “Let me first of all apologize to Oshiomhole if whatever I said could in any way injure him or feel offended.”
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Members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, loyal to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, have taken over the secretariat of the party in Oyo State.
The secretariat, located in the Molete area of Ibadan, was in the custody of the faction loyal to Governor Seyi Makinde of the state until Thursday when the members loyal to Wike took over the premises.
DAILY POST gathered that the PDP members stormed the secretariat on Thursday and occupied the premises with hundreds of members of the party in attendance.
PDP chairman in the state, Professor Abdulrahman Akinoso, confirmed the development to DAILY POST.
Akinoso in a telephone conversation with DAILY POST on Thursday, insisted that the real owners have taken over the premises.
He said, “It is true. It is not faction. It is PDP. We have taken over the premises. It was in the morning. We were there in the morning. We just left the premises. We are now in control. We have taken over the premises.” .…For more, Complete your reading.
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