Appeal Court in Port Harcourt,Rivers State has set aside a bench warrant of arrest issued against the former Governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi and two others.

Appeal Court in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, has set aside a bench warrant of arrest issued against the former Governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi and two others. The others are the Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, in the 2023 elections, Tonye Cole and the Commissioner for Power in the Amaechi administration, Austine Wokocha.

The ruling followed an appeal filed by Amaechi and the others seeking the setting side of the order by a lower court. Justice Abdul-azeez Waziri, in a ruling, said the order by the lower court was made in defiance of the Court of Appeal.

The judge noted that the order of arrest was given when there was already an application before the Appeal Court by Amaechi challenging the service of information on him. Reacting to the ruling, counsel to the former Rivers governor said the lower court was supposed to have respected the hierarchy of court placements in the nation’s judiciary.

On his part, one of the state government lawyers, Alphansus Sibi, accepted the position of the Appeal Court in good fate.