Nigeria: Court to Jail Flag-Amachree If He Fails to Appear for Trial

20 February 2019

A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt has ordered that the sacked Rivers State factional Chairman of the state All Progressives Congress (APC), Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, will be tried and convicted in absentia if he fails to appear for trial on March 28 and is found guilty.

Flag-Amachree, who was recently sacked by the Supreme Court as Rivers State APC Chairman, is standing trial for the murder of two persons.

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