The Court of Appeal in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, will today hear a suit on the House of Assembly crisis.
The outcome of the case will have a bearing on the status of the sacked council chairmen, whose expired tenure was extended by the Martin Amawule-led House of Assembly before the governor appointed caretaker chairmen to take charge.
The appellate court had ordered parties to maintain the status quo.
The Court of Appeal gave the order in a suit by Martin Amaewhule and 24 others against Victor Oko-Jumbo and five others.
Amaewhule and others seek to vacate an order by the High Court recognising Oko-Jumbo as the Speaker.
Justice Charles Wali had ordered Amaewhule and others to stop parading themselves as Speaker and lawmakers.
The judge held that all the laws made by Amaewhule and others, including those affecting councils, were a nullity until the matter was determined.
Oko-Jumbo and others contend that Amaewhule and others had lost their seats, having defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Appeal Court adjourned till today and warned parties against taking any step that would affect the merit of the case.