APC loses out in Court in Rivers, No candidate to contest governorship elections

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State lost the opportunity of fielding their candidate for the 2019 governorship election as the Federal High Court nullified both direct and indirect primaries held by the party.

RIVERS STATE:  Therefore, the court presided over by Justice Kolawole Omotosho has restrained INEC from presenting both Tonye Cole and Magnus Abe as governorship candidates in this year general elections.

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The judge said none of the primaries were conducted according to the law. He noted that the INEC did not do well by submitting names of candidates without consideration of previous court orders.

One of the counsels to the APC factions however told journalists that the judgement will be appealed at the Supreme Court.

Crisis erupted in the Rivers APC during the governorship primaries held in 2018 in the state.

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Senator Abe in a direct governorship primary conducted a faction of the APC was declared winner after he got 144, 929 votes. In an indirect primary held in the state by another faction of the APC, Cole was declared the winner with 3,329 votes.

The national leadership of the APC, however, submitted Cole’s name as its candidate insisting he emerged from the primary conducted by the party.

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