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Court Bars Rivers APC Candidates From 2019 Elections by Teebeke: 9:33pm On Jan 09, 2019 |
The Federal High Court in Port Harcourt,
Rivers State has ordered the Independent
National Electoral Commission to expunge
the names of candidates representing the All
Progressives Congress in Rivers State in the
February and March 2019 general elections.
The presiding judge, Justice James
Omotosho, gave this order on Monday while
ruling on a suit brought before the court,
asking it not to recognise any candidate
from the state APC.
Delivering his judgment, Omotosho made
reference to an earlier ruling by the Rivers
State High Court, which nullified the ward,
local government and state congresses held
by the state APC.
He ruled, “All nominations in the APC, from
governorship, Senate, House of
Representatives and others are hereby
nullified and void and set aside.
“Only political parties that conducted valid
primaries are eligible to produce candidates
for the general elections.
“The All Progressives Congress is not entitled
to nominate candidates from governorship
to Senate, House of Representatives and
other positions.”
He added, “The plaintiffs did not participate
in valid primaries; they are not eligible to
contest because they did not follow due
process.”
The judge, who also ruled on whether a
political party could interfere in the affairs of
another political party, stated that the
amended Electoral Act, in its expanded locus,
had paved the way for a political party to
challenge the dealings of another party.
He pointed out that this could be necessary
if a political party felt there was an error in
the action or actions of another party.
But the Tonye Cole Campaign Organisation
said it would challenge Monday’s ruling that
barred INEC from recognising any APC
candidate in Rivers State ahead of the
general elections.
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The campaign organisation said there were
sufficient grounds on which to appeal the
decision of the Federal High Court.
A statement signed by the spokesman for
the Tonye Cole Campaign Organisation, Mr
Ogbonna Nwuke, indicated that it was
obvious the battle was between the APC and |
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