Rivers State Government has withdrawn the criminal charges
against the former governor, Rotimi Amaechi, the governorship candidate of the
All Progressives Congress in the state, Tonye Cole and five others.
When the matter resumed for ruling on the legality of the
use of a private lawyer to prosecute the matter rather than the attorney
general of the state, counsel to Rivers State government informed the court of
their decision to withdraw the suit.
However, the defense counsel argued that withdrawing the
suit at this point was an abuse of court process and asked the court to dismiss
the criminal charges.
But the trial Judge, Justice Okogbule Gbasam, in his ruling
instead struck out the charges.
The judge ruled that the plaintiff has the right to
discontinue with the matter.
The Rivers state Government had filed criminal charges
against the former minister of Transportation, the APC governorship candidate
Tonye Cole and five others over alleged illegal sales of state assets.
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