Barring further changes, the All Progressives Congress (APC) would lose out in the Saturday governorship election in Bayelsa following the disqualification of the party’s guber candidate, David Lyon.
The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State Capital on Thursday, ruled that APC cannot field candidates in the Saturday, November 16, 2019 governorship election in the state.
This is just as a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday had earlier disqualified the Bayelsa State deputy governorship candidate of the APC, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, from participating in the November 16, 2019 governorship election in the State.
BusinessDay had reported that former Minister of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri who participated in September 4 governorship primary election had dragged APC before a Federal High Court in Yenagoa, seeking the nullification of the candidature of David Lyon.
Lokpobiri was praying the court to declare him the winner of the controversial poll as he won the primary election with majority votes of 111, 439, and Aganaba Stephen came second with 5,426, Ebitimi Amgbare got third position with 638 votes while Lyon came fifth with 325 votes.
He also sought an order of perpetual injunction stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, its officers, agents and privies from accepting or further accepting, publishing or further publishing Lyon as the flag bearer and barring the electoral body from excluding him as the APC governorship candidate for Bayelsa.
The governorship aspirant sought another order to stop Lyon from parading or further parading, presenting or further presenting himself as APC candidate and a similar order against INEC to stop it from accepting, recognising, or dealing with Lyon or putting his image on the ballot paper in the name of APC as the party’s governorship candidate.
