Ahead of the 2023 elections, a Federal High Court sitting in
Port Harcourt has nullified all primary elections conducted by the All Progressives
Congress (APC) in Rivers State over the unlawful exclusion of some party
members as delegates to the primaries.
Justice E A Obile made the declaration in a judgement he
delivered Tuesday over a case instituted by one George Orlu and four others as
Plaintiffs against Rivers APC, requesting nullification of the primaries of APC
in Rivers for alleged exclusion in the process.
The judge agreed with the Plaintiffs that they were wrongly
excluded in the elections to participate in the party primaries, ruling the
primaries nullified and all those elected consequently not recognized as
candidates for the coming elections.
Dissatisfied with the judgement, the Spokesman to Rivers
APC, Darlington Nwauju, said, “We believe the appellate court shall treat the
matter dispassionately and deliver justice because this is not an action
against the primaries of our party but an attempt at challenging the
composition of our delegates list.
“We assure River people that the attempt to rehash the 2019
episode in Rivers is already dead on arrival. Nothing will stop APC Rivers from
being on the ballot in 2023.
“Supreme court has decided on a plethora of cases affirming
that political parties are their own operating authorities and can regulate own
internal affairs.
“The subject matter for which Justice Obile granted reliefs
of the Plaintiffs is entire our internal affairs, therefore it is a travesty of
justice far as we are concerned.”
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