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Supreme Court to hear appeals on Rivers’ APC’s dispute Thursday ~ by Eric Ikhilae, Abuja April 1, 2019 A seven-man panel of the Supreme Court has scheduled hearing for Thursday (April 4) in four appeals relating to the lingering intra-party dispute among members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State. The four appeals, The Nation learnt, are in relation to the some interlocutory decisions of the lower courts on the dispute that has polarised the party and affected the outcome of the primaries it conducted preparatory to the 2019 general elections. The Justice Ibrahim Muhammad-led seven-man panel adjourned to April 4 after addressing some preliminary issues on the appeals on Monday. The first of the appeals, marked: SC/ 1972019 was filed by Magnus Abe and some others, with APC and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) listed among the respondents. The court granted the motion by the APC, represented by Jibrin Okutepa (SAN) for permission to merge the different respondents’ briefs, earlier filed by the 2nd to the 35th respondents, into a single brief. It rejected a similar motion filed by the appellants’ lawyer, Henry Bello for leave (permission) to amend the notice of appeal. The court noted that the motion was defective because Bello failed to attach the old notice of appeal to the motion, as required. It noted that the lawyer only attached his proposed amended notice of appeal. It adjourned to April 4 for hearing, before which the appellants are to, within 48 hours, filed their reply to the respondents’ brief of argument. The other appeals are: SC 295/ 20019, filed by APC, with PDP listed among respondents; SC266, filed by APC, with Magnus Abe and others as respondents and SC/267/2019 filed by Tonye Patrick Cole, with Magnus Abe and 48 others as respondents. The three appeals were adjourned to April 4 to allow the formal service of hearing notices and all other processes on INEC, which was not represented on Monday. Other members of the seven-man panel of the Supreme Court are: Justices Olukayode Ariwoola, Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, Amiru Sanusi, Paul Galinje, Amina Augie, and Uwani Musa Abba Aji.

So people still go to school to study that course.

Omo Las Las this thing fit no favour wikeoo

Our money go finishooo.Wike the bribing machine

That should be Delta state .Urohobo to be precise.Their men are Lazy.They will just sit down drinking their ogogoro why the woman provides for the family.

mtcheww. Losers

Ndi Ara. The same PDP that criticize the military for involving in the elections.They should have gone there with their knives and guns for protection. Una never see anything.

AroOkigbo:
The lizard of Ubima will be disgraced.
Rivers state is PDP!

Thus says an IPOB miscreant from Ariaria. Rivers people are fed up with wike .Don't know why u guys are interfering .

BREAKING NEWS!!! A Federal High Court in Abuja Tuesday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to stop the collation and announcement of the result of the governorship and House of assembly elections in Rivers State held on March 9, 2019. The Commission had moved to resume the collation of the result that had been previously suspended after it was alleged that the AAC Candidate was leading in the results so far declared at the various collations centers by the INEC returning . There was a disruption of the collation process at some collation centers which led to the suspension of results for the elections. The commission on had announced the resumption of the result collation process after considering a report from its fact-finding –committee put in place to ascertain remote causes of violence that led to the suspension of the process. However, Justice Iyang Ewa, ordered the Commission to halt its proceedings based on an ex parte application filed by AAC Candidates. The applicant prayed the court for an order of Interim Injunction restraining INEC from resuming, collating or announcing the result of the suspended elections in Rivers State in respect of the election to the office of Governor and the Houses of Assembly Inyang Ewa ordered INEC to appear before the court on Friday for hearing of the suit filed against it by the AAC and its candidate in the election. Inyang affirmed that the court will give its final order after it concludes the suits brought before it by the plaintiffs. Although INEC represented, by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ransome uwa, approached the court with a motion challenging its jurisdiction. But the Counsel to the plaintiffs, mohammed Abali, however, objected to the application of INEC, informing the court that the order issued on Monday asking the electoral body to show cause why the requests of the plaintiffs should not be granted had not been obeyed. The judge, however, ordered electoral umpire to halt the proceedings till the court give the final order.

Ewooh Wike has finished us here in River state.

lonelydora:
Loud it for Amaechi to hear. If they declare Awara winner, Rivers will burn.

mumu kill yourself.Awara has already won

for the records these are the results collated and declared so far.
RIVERS STATE GOVERNORSHIP RESULTS SO FAR AS COLLATED AND ANNOUNCED BY LGA COLLATION OFFICERS *AHOADA WEST LGA.* AAC – 44,857 PDP – 5,866 Diff: 38,991 *IKWERRE LGA.* AAC - 96,663 PDP - 7,554 Diff: 89,109 *ASARI TORU LGA* AAC -18,834 PDP -2,239 Diff: 16,595 *ELEME LGA* AAC - 27,712 PDP - 4,436 Diff: 23,272 *OYIGBO LGA* AAC - 32,026 PDP - 8,652 Diff: 23,374 *AKUKU TORU LGA* AAC 57,856 PDP 5,953 Diff: 51,903 *Margin= 243,244 ACC * # RiversDecides
Wike is gone

OgaBuhari:
so it's true aac were leading PDP. Leading by how many margin if I may ask?

200k

izombie:
Op you mean "happening live"?

Na Wike supporter Na. They all thugs.

kingkakaone:
The way most of you online take these politicians ehn, Wike is not as good as you online supporters at the moment. Have you heard Wike's noise since morning?
He knows what's up. PH is as calm as an ice water today because most of the people who knows what's up are watching.

Most PDP leaders are also tired of Wike and his authoritative style of leadership.

thank you my brother you have said it all. Someone from Ariaria will come online and tell us what's happening in River state

Our incoming Governor .I hail you sir. Inec does not have the right to halt an ongoing process. Wike is gone .

KHANA LG GOVERNORSHIP. AAC - 115,960. PDP - 4 781. could this be the reason the election was suspended. Wike is gone already.

Ikio:
But Pdp won assembly

no problem.wike is the target

Omotorvidosky:
What goes around surely comes around, but this man shouldn't be playing God here. Let INEC [rig] do what they know best according to the electoral laws.

The REC in Rivers state is a card carrying member of PDP we all know that. why suspend a process that is ongoing.But this time he will fail

MEDICPATH:
Nigerian military was reduced to an election tool...Now the world will be laughing at us

wailers will continue to wail. when the blood sucking wike killed over 200 Rivers people in 2015 because of power why didn't you accuse the military then. Wike must go. with the results declared already wike is gone.

River state REC is biases why suspend an election AAC was coasting to victory. He has never hidden his preference for wike. This was same man that suspended the phalga constituency 1 result.
But this time , he won't escape it.
#Efangamustgo# #wikeisalreadygone#

Before you come online and insult Amaechi and Apc supporters for causing chaos in River state please read this peice as reported by punch.You be the judge.


The Punch newspaper called it "Rivers of Blood", but
majority of people have ignored the political
bloodbath in Rivers State, because winning the
presidential election is the ultimate goal of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) and since the party
won the March 28 presidential election, the
leadership of the APC has ignored the reckless loss
of lives in Rivers State. Many of the gory images of
the murders were so horrifying and terrifying that I
could not publish them on my Nigerians Report
Online.
What is going on now in Rivers is the worst
nightmares of political desperation and greed for
power in the oil rich Niger Delta. Almost 100 people
have been killed so far before and after the bloody
presidential election that was not peaceful contrary
to the claims by President Goodluck Jonathan and
the ignorant foreign news media. In fact, it was one
of the bloodiest presidential elections in the history
of Nigeria since independence. Rivers State has
become as bloody as the wild wild west of the first
republic when Nigerians witnessed the goriest
incidents of political riots in the western region
before the massacres of Igbos in the northern region
and the catastrophic internecine Nigerian civil war.
The gruesome murder of scores of members and
supporters of the APC in Rivers State seems not to
bother the President of Nigeria, because he does not
care how his PDP wins Rivers State no matter how
many people are killed. Because he has not even
condemned the barbaric attacks and killings caused
by the desperation of Chief Nyesome Wike,
gubernatorial candidate of the PDP instigated by the
cantankerous and dangerous First Lady, Dame
Patience Jonathan who has sworn that Dr. Dakuku
Peterside, the gubernatorial candidate of the APC
will not win the election on Saturday April 11.
Last weekend, precisely on Friday, gunmen went on
rampage in Obrikom in Onelga Ogba Egbema Ndoni
Local Government Area of Rivers State, killing "Chief
Adube, a traditional ruler and APC chieftain in the
area, along with his two sons and seven others. We
learnt that these PDP miscreants have moved to
Oboh, a neighboring community and destroyed the
house of Vincent Ogbuagu, an APC House of
Assembly aspirant and also to continue their killing
spree before they will hit other areas of the State,”
reported Rivers State APC Chairman, Dr. Davies
Ibiamu Ikanya in the following press release.

Generalnomercy:
A fool is one who believes fake news like this

you are the biggest fool.

tesppidd:
can this be sustained throughout at least 15 LGA's?

BREAKING
Candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC),
Engr Biokpomabo Awara declared winner of Ahoada
West LGA Rivers Governorship Election.
AAC – 44,857
PDP – 5,866

yet another one.

Truckpusher:
Wetin this one dun smoke again ?

e go soon clear for your eyes

tesppidd:
Hehehehehe.

Sounds like a joke.

Not a joke bro. I don't know what's happening in other LG.But I can authoritatively tell you that this is the result from Ikwerre

AAC win Ikwerre LGA. Governorship AAC 96,663 Vote PDP 7,554 Vote Assembly results: SDP 98,718 PDP 4,453 as declared by the collation officers. To God be the glory.

xelly:
He didn't employ you?

Go and Vote him out alone.

Rivers people re yearning for a change of govt. Not just Apc members alone. wike is a scam.

EdoBoyJazzie:
APC have no candidate in the forthcoming election, easy ride for Wike.

Na lie bro. we will do it with any party. wike cannot have a Smooth ride to brick house after his 4yrs of collosal failure .#wike must go

next is wike.8th on my mind