2019 GOVERNORSHIP: SUPREME COURT SEALS APC’S HOPE IN RIVERS

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Supreme Court today dashed the prospect of the All Progressive Congress(APC) fielding candidate for the governorship election in Rivers State in 2019 by setting aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal.

The Appeal court in Rivers State had set aside judgement of the Rivers State High Court which annulled the congresses of APC in the state.

But at today’s hearing, the order of the Appeal Court issued on June 21, 2018, against the ruling of a Rivers State High Court was voided by the Supreme Court on the grounds that the appellate court acted in bad faith.

Justice Centus Chima Nweze, in a judgment in an appeal filed by one Abdullahi Umar, held that the Court of Appeal ought not to have vacated the injunction issued against the APC by the Rivers State High Court prohibiting the conduct of congresses in the state and that the party cannot be a beneficiary of its own stupidity.