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Supreme Court Dismisses Lokpobiri’s case, Affirms Lyon aas Bayelsa APC candidate
The Supreme Court, on Tuesday , affirmed the Bayelsa State governor -elect , David Lyon, as the valid candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the last governorship election in the state .
A five – man panel of the court led by Justice Mary Pet to seeer -Odili unanimously dismissed the appeal filed by Heineken Lokpobiri , who had instituted his case seeking to be declared the valid winner of September 4 , 2019 , primary election of the All Progressives Congress.
Delivering the lead judgement of the apex court, Justice Inyang Okoro affirmed the January 11 , 2020 judgement of the Port Harcourt Division of the Court of Appeal , which had held that Lokpobiri ’s suit challenging Lyon’ s victory in the primary election was filed out of time at the Federal High Court, Yenogoa .
The Federal High Court in Yenegoa had in its judgment delivered on November 14 , 2019 , upheld Lokpobiri ’ s case and nullified Lyon’ s nomination as the APC ’ s candidate for the November 17 , 2019 governorship election in the state .
But the Court of Appeal , Port Harcourt , on January 11 , 2019 , upturned the Federal High Court judgement and affirmed Lyon’ s nomination .
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the Court of Appeal ’s judgement laying to rest the dispute about the APC ’s nominated candidate for the governorship poll .
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