A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has thrown out a suit filed by a Port Harcourt-based legal practitioner, Williams Stanley, challenging the just-concluded local government elections.

The lawyer filed the suit against President Bola Tinubu, the Attorney-General of the Federation, the Sole Administrator, the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC), and its chairman.

Stanley in the suit challenged the legality of the appointments of the state’s Sole Administrator by President Bola Tinubu and the administrator’s nominations of the chairman and members of RSIEC to conduct the August 30th Local Government Council election.

Jumbo also held that the claimant lacked the locus standi to institute the suit against the defendants.

He said that the claimant was not able to show personal interest above public interest and as well as his civil rights and obligations that had been violated by the actions of the defendants.

The judge also ruled that the claimant failed to show sufficient proof of injury or threat to injury or hardship he would suffer if his questions as contained in his originating summons were answered.

Jumbo insisted that the interest the claimant sought to protect was not his personal interest but that of the governor of the state, a position he was not holding at the moment.