The supreme court on Friday
upheld the annulment of primaries and congresses conducted by a faction of the
Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
A high court in Port Harcourt,
the state capital, had nullified the primaries and congresses which were
fraught with crisis.
The APC had appealed the order of
the lower court at the court of appeal but lost. However, the party filed
another appeal challenging the ruling of the same court..
On Friday, Lateef Fagbemi,
counsel to Amaechi’s faction, asked the apex court “to clear legal impediments”
against Tonye Cole, his client.
Cole is the governorship
candidate of the Amaechi faction.
But that request was rejected
when a five-man panel of the supreme court led by Mohammad Dattijo. The apex
court evoked section 22 of its act which allows it to give final judgement in
an appeal.
In a unanimous judgement read by
Sidi Barge, the court took over the matter because the court of appeal did not
make a “dismissal pronouncement.”
Barge said the appeal must be
given a “decent burial.”
“It is my considered opinion that
this appeal must be given a decent burial. The appeal having been withdrawn at
the lower court by the respondent is deemed distilled,” the justice said.
“This is what the lower court
failed or evaded to do.”
The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) had refused to enlist APC candidates in Rivers in
the election despite pressure from the party.
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