BREAKING: APC Reacts As Court Sacks Bayelsa Governorship Candidate Timipre Sylva

BREAKING: APC Reacts As Court Sacks Bayelsa Governorship Candidate Timipre Sylva

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced its intention to contest the disqualification of its Bayelsa governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, from the November 11 poll.

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Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court in Abuja delivered a verdict on Monday, barring Sylva from participating in the gubernatorial election. Okorowo stated that Sylva’s previous two terms and five-year rule as Governor of Bayelsa would violate the 1999 constitution as amended if he were allowed to run again.

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In a statement released on Tuesday in Yenagoa, Mr. Perry Tukuwei, the Director of Media and Publicity for the APC Bayelsa Gubernatorial Campaign Council, conveyed this intention.

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“The party has briefed its lawyers to appeal the judgement, and it is confident that the Court of Appeal will overturn the judgement of the Federal High Court.

“This reassurance is in reaction to a judgement which has the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate written all over it by a Federal High Court in Abuja in an already failed bid to dash the hopes of Bayelsa people, to have their preferred candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, as the next helmsman at Creek Haven by Feb. 14, 2024.

“Sections 29 and 84 of the 2022 Electoral Act state that only persons who contested primaries of a political party that has the locus standi to file a pre-election matter to challenge the qualification of the party’s candidate in any election hence the suit filed by one Chief Demesuoyefa Kolomo who is not a member of the APC and didn’t contest our party’s governorship primaries do not have the locus standi to sue in the matter.

“Section 285 of the 1999 Nigerian constitution enjoins any aggrieved party to file election matter within 14 days of the occurrence of the event, but this case was filed on the 13th of June 2023 whereas INEC published the names of the governorship candidates for Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi on May 12,’’ Tukuwei said.

He added: ’’Thus, the case was filed outside the constitutional prescribed 14 days, thereby making the case statute barred.

“It is surprising to the party and Bayelsa people that the court ignored the fact that the plaintiff lacked the locus standi to sue and went ahead to give judgement in their favour.”

He said the suit was contrary to a directive by the Supreme Court that all pre-election matters be heard in the state where party primaries were held.

“To perfect their sinister act, the case was filed in Abuja. Is Abuja Bayelsa?

“Subsequently, the Bayelsa APC can smell the coffee and sinister move by Gov. Douye Diri to go through the back door, which is his usual practice having realised that our governorship candidate is coasting home to victory already following unrivalled acceptance across the state.

“Our dear people of Bayelsa, fear not! This clandestine strategy by the PDP should not deter the resolve to elect Sylva as the next Governor of Bayelsa, we will win,” he stated.