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Apc Loses Bid To Reverse Judgment On Rivers Election by SUPRRA: 9:14pm On Feb 12, 2019 |
The Supreme Court has ended the quest by the All
Progressives Congress ( APC ) in Rivers State to
reverse the October 10, 2018 judgment of the High
Court of Rivers State, which barred it from holding
primaries for the production of candidates for the
next general elections.
A five-man panel of the court, headed by Justice
Bode Rhodes-Vivour struck out the three remaining
appeals filed by the APC, Ojukaye Flag Amachree
and Tonye Patrick Cole, on the grounds that they
were statute barred, the appeals having been filed
outside the time allowed under Section 285(9) and
(12) of the Constitution as amended by the 4th
Alteration Act.
Justice Amina Augie, who read the lead ruling,
which terminated the appeals, said the appellants,
who were not parties to the original suit were not
allowed by the Appeal Court in Port-Harcourt, the
opportunity to appeal the October 10, 2018
judgment because they filed their appeal out of
time.
Justice Augie said the appeals, which were, this
morning, consolidated by the court – SC/81/2019
(another appeal filed by APC), SC/1332/2018 (by
Ojukaye Flag-Amchree) and SC/1334/2018 (by
Tonye Patrick Cole and others) – are statute barred.
The judge said the appellants have no leg to stand
on, since the main appeal filed by the APC -
SC/1333/2018, against the October 10 judgment,
had earlier been struck out by the court in the
judgment delivered on Tuesday morning by Justice
Amiru Sanusi. |
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