Court rules that APC has no governorship candidate in Bayelsa

Chidi Samuel |A Federal High Court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has disqualified David Lyon, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the state governorship election scheduled to hold on Saturday, November, 16.

In a ruling on Thursday, Justice Jane Inyang declared that APC did not follow constitutional guidelines in its primaries that produced Lyon.

Senator Heineken Lopkobiri, one of the aspirants in the APC primary, had earlier approached the court asking it to declare him, and not David Lyon, the authentic candidate of the APC.

Reacting to the ruling, counsel to Lopkobiri described the judgment as strange as the judgment was not part of their prayer when they filed their case before the court.

The Bayelsa state governorship election will hold on Saturday.

The APC and its candidate in the election are yet to react to the ruling as at the of filing this report.