Rivers Holds Contemporary LG Polls August

The Rivers State Unbiased Electoral Fee (RSIEC) has scheduled August 9, 2025, for a recent native authorities ballot within the state.

RSIEC chairman Justice Adolphus Enebeli (rtd) introduced the brand new election date on Wednesday throughout a Stakeholders assembly in Port Harcourt.

Enebeli mentioned: “In train of the powers conferred on the Rivers State Unbiased Electoral Fee by part 5 of the Rivers State Unbiased Electoral Fee legislation no 2 of 2018 and all different powers as enabling it on the behalf to offer pointers to political events, stipulating the principles and procedures for electioneering campaigns for the 2025 Native Authorities elections and any reruns and by-elections that may come up thereafter.

“The fee hereby makes the next guidelines and rules; there shall be native authorities council elections on Saturday, ninth August 2025, in all of the 23 Native Authorities Areas in Rivers State”.

In the meantime, the State Home of Meeting has summoned Enebeli to seem earlier than it inside 48 hours over the conduct of the 2024 native authorities elections.

Through the plenary presided over by its Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, on Wednesday, the Home additionally threatened to concern a warrant of arrest for the RSIEC Chairman if he failed to seem earlier than the Home on the ultimatum’s expiration.

The Home additionally resolved to jot down to Governor Siminalayi Fubara to request that he ahead the names of all his commissioners who the Amaewhule-led Meeting didn’t display to the Home.