The Supreme Court on Tuesday, dismissed the suit filed by
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, challenging the
jurisdiction of the Rivers governorship election petition
tribunal to hear a petition by candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Dakuku Peterside.
Wike and Peterside
In his argument, Wike had argued that the tribunal sitting in
Abuja had no jurisdiction over matters that transpired in the
state, contending however, that the tribunal should have sat
in Rivers State and not Abuja.
However, the tribunal was moved to Abuja on the ground of
security concerns, like those of Akwa Ibom, Yobe, Adamawa
and Borno.
The appeal court had earlier ruled that the tribunal could sit
in Abuja to handle Rivers election petitions.
Recall also that in its ruling on Saturday, the Rivers State
Governorship Election Tribunal, had sacked Wike as
governor of the state, and ordered that the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) to hold a fresh
election within 90 days.
Following this ruling, the political temperature in the state
has since risen a few bars as the ruling APC and the
opposition PDP have been engaged in a war of words over
the credibility of the judicial ruling.
National Leadership of the PDP, in a strong-worded
statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa
Metuh, in a statement on Saturday, however asked PDP
“supporters and lovers of democracy across the country to
rise up and use all lawful means to resist anti-democratic
forces, now using the judiciary and security agencies in their
desperate scheme to subvert the will of the people and
destroy the nation’s democrac
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its expected.


the ruling party always have a way out.

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