The end of the road for the All Progressives Congress in the 2019 general elections in Rivers State came yesterday as the Supreme Court dismissed the three separate appeals filed by the party and Tonye Cole, its factional governorship candidate in the state.
But the counsel to the Peoples Democratic Party , Chief Emmanuel Okala, quickly drew the court’s attention to the notice of appeal filed by APC, wherein the party erroneously prayed the Court of Appeal instead of the Supreme Court to grant its reliefs. In other words, APC had mistakenly addressed its notice of appeal to the Court of Appeal instead of the Supreme Court.
Aware of the error, counsel to Cole promptly moved to withdraw the incompetent notice. Unfortunately, there was no other option but for the acting CJN to strike it out. The apex court struck out the appeal on the ground that the notice of appeal filed by the senator was defective and failed to comply with the order of the court.
But Okutekpa objected to the hearing of the appeal on the ground that names of appropriate persons affected by the suit were not listed on the notice of appeal, thereby making the appeal incompetent and incurably defective. The long legal tussle that bedeviled Rivers State APC started shortly after Abe, who represents Rivers South-East Senatorial District, declared his intention last April to seek the party’s nomination for the governorship ticket. Minister of Transportation Chibuike Amaechi however vehemently opposed the move.
They further urged the court to issue a perpetual order restraining APC from conducting any local government area congress or any other congress contrary to the one purportedly conducted on May 2018. Following this, the APC national leadership purportedly issued a letter ordering the annulment of the contentious local government congresses held on May 5 and 12 and scheduled fresh ward, local government and state congresses for May 18, 19, 20.
But before Justice Worgu and the Supreme Court could deliver judgment in the suits filed by Umar and 22 others, Cole and Abe on September 30, 2018 emerged as parallel governorship candidates of the APC. While Cole who was Amaechi’s preferred candidate emerged through indirect primaries, Abe claimed he won in direct primaries held the same day.
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