Easy sail for Wike?
The crisis rocking the major opposition party, the APC in Rivers State which forced it out of the governorship, National Assembly and State Assembly elections in the state has positioned Governor Nyesom Wike in an advantageous position, far ahead of other contenders. prayed the court to declare that that made APC politically the processes that led to the impotent in the governorship emergency of Tonye Cole as APC race in the state. governorship candidate was While APC battled itself in illegal. the court, Governor Wike was
A State High Court presided busy oiling and fortifying his over by Justice Nwogu granted political machineries. Although his prayers and nullified the the numerous infrastructural ward, local government and state projects carried out by the congresses of the APC. The court governor across the state would also ruled that all the candidates have spoken volumes for him, of the party that emerged the governor seems to be very through the party primaries were apprehensive that having APC in products of illegality. the race would have given him a
Daily Trust reports that Justice big fight.
Nwogu’s verdict appeared to The governor feared that the be a political virus that hunted leaders of the party in the state the APC in Rivers from the state might use the apparatus of the High Court, Federal High Court, Federal Government to influence Appeal Court and finally to the the outcome of the election in Supreme Court as all the courts their favour. He had in the past upheld the judgement of the accused INEC and security state High Court, a development agencies of working according to the dictates of the Federal Government, an allegation those accused vehemently denied. The Accord Party’s governorship candidate, Barrister Dumo Lulu Briggs, who would have stood in the election as the only surviving challenger for Governor Wike was on Thursday sacked by a state High Court over accusation of a stolen mandate.
Briggs was accused by one Barrido of hijacking the mandate freely given to him during the Accord Party’s primaries.
Barrido won the party’s governorship primaries conducted in 2018 and the court ruled in his favour on the grounds that Briggs did not participate in the primaries.
The 58 governorship candidates of various political parties in the state, apart from that of Action Democratic Party (ADP), Hon. Victor Fingesi and Labour Party (LP), have endorsed Wike as their candidate.