{"id":3996,"date":"2024-05-21T13:43:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2024-05-21T13:56:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T12:56:20","slug":"just-now-victory-for-the-simplified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/just-now-victory-for-the-simplified\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST NOW! !Victory for the Simplified!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4001\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4001 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4980-300x162.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4980-300x162.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_4980.jpeg 305w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Rivers State High Court in suit No. PHC\/1320\/CS\/2024 Between Hon. Enyiada Cookey-Gam &amp; 6 Ors .V The Governor of Rivers State &amp; Ors.by His lordship: Hon. Justice D.G. Kio Ph.D, Judge sitting in High Court Port Harcourt, held that the Local Government law No. 2 of 2024, purporting to extend the tenure of Local Goverment Chairman for 6 months after the expiration of their tenure is invalid as it is inconsistent with the 1999 constitution and section 9 (1) of the Rivers State Local Government law No. 5 of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Court further held that the applicable law in the circumstances is the Rivers State Local Government law No. 5 of 2018 that fixed three years tenure for local Government chairmen and councillors and not the local government law No 2 of 2024 which was enacted to unlawfully extend their tenure. It was also held that such extension was contrary to their oath of office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivers State High Court in suit No. PHC\/1320\/CS\/2024 Between Hon. Enyiada Cookey-Gam &amp; 6 Ors .V The Governor of Rivers State &amp; Ors.by His lordship: Hon. Justice D.G. Kio Ph.D, Judge sitting in High Court Port Harcourt, held that the Local Government law No. 2 of 2024, purporting to extend the tenure of Local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[1534,1533,1535],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-misc","tag-hon-enyiada-cookey-gam-6-ors-v-the-governor-of-rivers-state-ors-by-his-lordship-hon-justice-d-g-kio-ph-d","tag-judge","tag-rivers-state-local-government-law-no-5-of-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/4004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shippingworld-ng.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}