The lawyer purportedly representing the Senator Magnus Abe’s faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, S.C. Nwafor got the reprimand of his lifetime today from the Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt.

The Appeal Court referred to Nwafor as “a meddlesome interloper”, ” alien”, “tombo fly”, and “uninvited guest”.

Appeals panel presided over by Justice Carol Jumbo-Offor was hearing the appeals by the Rivers State Chairman of the APC, Ojukaye Flag-Amachree and Ibrahim Umar and others on issues surrounding the congresses that brought the current leadership of the APC in the state into office.

Kristina Reports learnt that trouble started for the learned silk when the Appeal Court, in its bid to regularize representations for the parties to the substantive appeal before it from two warring factions of the APC in the state, he (Nwafor) claimed to be representing the APC in the state.

This drew the ire of the Ojukaye Flag-Amachree led Rivers APC leadership which instantly challenged his claim, drawing the attention of the court to its argument before Hon. Justice Chinwendu Nwogu that Nwafor did not have the consent of the party’s National Legal Adviser to appear for the party in the matter but was overruled by the Rivers State judge.

Consequently, the Court recognized J. Olatoke, SAN, as counsel to the APC duly authorized by its National Working Committee (NWC) to handle the matter.

In upbraiding Nwafor, who had claimed to be the legal representative of the 23 pro-Abe supporters who dragged APC to court, the court held that he had no reason to have been part of the party’s legal representative, ab initio, saying he was an alien in the matter as the law did not recognise him a counsel representing APC.

His request, through an application, to withdraw the notice of the application, was denied by the court.

While the motion for joinder was withdrawn to make for speedy hearing of the main appeal, which is in Appeal No: CA/PH/198/2018, the preliminary objection to the motion for joinder was also withdrawn by the respondents on same ground.

The court equally struck out both the motion for joinder and the preliminary objection and awarded the costs of N30,000 and N20,000, respectively, against both parties.