A Rivers State High Court holden in Port Harcourt has ordered three local government Chairmen, their Vice Chairmen, and Councillors to appear before it to show why their elections on August 30th should not be nullified.
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The Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC) conducted council elections across the 23 LGAs of the state on August 30th, 2025.
Those affected are the candidates who contested and won the elections on the platform of the PDP.
The court on Tuesday ordered the Chairmen of Obio/Akpor, Port Harcourt City, and Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGAs, their Vice Chairmen, and Councillors to appear before it to show cause why their elections should not be nullified.
Justice Stephen Jumbo gave the order after joining the Chairman of Obio/Akpor, Hon. Gift Worlu, PhD, and fifty-nine others as the second set of respondents in the suit filed by three PDP stakeholders in the state.
Jumbo, before adjourning the matter to March 17, 2026, for hearing, granted the claimants’ counsel, Glory Chizim-Chinda, an application for substituted service on the second set of respondents.
The court directed that the process be served on the defendants at the State Secretariat of the PDP on Aba Road.
The claimants—Enyi Uchechukwu, Wisdom Kalio, and Uche Amadi—are in court against the state factional Chairman of PDP, Aaron Chukwuemeka, the RSIEC, the PDP, and the government of Rivers State over the nomination of PDP Chairmen, their Vice Chairmen, and Councillors for the last council elections in the state.
In their originating summons, the claimants are asking the court to determine whether Aaron Chukwuemeka-led state executives, whose congresses that brought him to power have been nullified, could validly submit lists of candidates to RSIEC for the just-concluded LGA elections by virtue of the Rivers State High Court judgment delivered against his emergence.
The claimants also want the court to determine, among other reliefs, whether the PDP presented a valid list of candidates to RSIEC through Aaron Chukwuemeka, enabling the candidates to participate in the August 30th, 2025 council elections.
They are seeking a declaration that the PDP’s Ward, Local Government Area, and State Elective Congresses conducted on July 27, 2024, and August 10, 2024, are a nullity. Consequently, Chukwuemeka, being a product of the nullified congresses, lacked the competence or capacity to conduct any of the party’s primaries and/or submit any list of candidates.
The claimants further requested an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, their privies, agents, assigns, administrators, or howsoever named, from interfering or further interfering with the PDP’s internal affairs regarding the nomination and presentation of candidates for elective positions.
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