Diri celebrates after Supreme Court judgement
There
was wild jubilation among members of the PDP today in Bayelsa state
after Supreme Court nullified the election of APC candidate, David Lyon.
Members of the People Democratic Party (PDP) including Diri Duoye,
the incoming governor of Bayelsa state on Thursday burst into wild
jubilation in Yenagoa following the judgement which sacked David Lyon of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the Governor-elect in the state.
Diri was seen with other members of the party celebrating the news.
The jubilant PDP members also stormed the government house in excitement and burst into songs of praises.
While some were dancing, others removed APC flags in the government House premises.
A five-man panel of the apex court, led by Justice Mary Peter-Odili
hd earlier on Thursday ordered the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) to withdraw the certificate of return issued to the
APC candidate who had been declared the winner of the November 16, 2019
governorship election in the state.
Justice Ejembi Ekwo, who read the lead judgment made the orders
after disqualifying the APC’s deputy governorship candidate,
Degi-Eremienyo, as a candidate in the election.
The court upheld the November 12, 2019 judgment of the Federal High
Court in Abuja which had disqualified Degi-Eremienyo in the election
for submitting forged certificates to INEC.
The court ruled that Mister Degi-Eremienyo’s disqualification had
infected the joint ticket with which he and the governorship candidate,
Lyon, ran for and won November 16, 2019.
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