A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Thursday restrained the Chief of Defence Staff, the Brigade Commander of Amphibious Brigade and the Chief of Army Staff from deploying military operatives for the re-run elections.

In a ruling delivered by Justice George Omereji in a suit filed by the PDP Chairman, Felix Obuah, and the PDP, the Court made an order restraining , the Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of Army Staff, Brigade Commander, 2nd Amphibious Brigade, whether by themselves, their agents, servants, officers and operatives or privies from interfering with the applicants right to freely participate in the government of Nigeria either directly or through free chosen representatives.

The court also barred the affected officers from threatening to arrest, harass, intimidate, torture , incarcerate the applicants and their members during the re-run elections for the State and National Assembly on 19th March, 2016.

Omereji said it based its judgment on the ruling by the Appeal Court in the case between the APC versus others in 2015 detailing the non-involvement of the Army and the Armed Forces in elections.

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