Politics
Court disqualifies Tonye Cole as Rivers APC guber candidate
A federal high court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, has disqualified Tonye Cole, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
Emmanuel Obile, the presiding judge, gave the ruling on Thursday according to PUNCH.
In May, Cole, a former executive director of Sahara Group, won the APC governorship ticket in Rivers state.
Cole polled 986 votes to win the ticket and defeated Ojukai Flagamakere who got 190 votes, Sukonte Davids with 49 votes, Michael West got 43 votes, Benald Miku had two votes, and Magnus Abe who secured one vote.
However, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers had approached the court with a suit seeking to disqualify the APC governorship candidate over allegations that the delegates that voted at the party’s primary were not qualified.
The development comes weeks after a federal high court in Port Harcourt nullified the primaries conducted by the APC in Rivers.
A claimant, George Orlu, and four other persons identified as aspirants had filed a case before the court seeking nullification of the primaries over their alleged exclusion.
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