The end of the road for the All Progressives Congress, APC in the 2019 general elections in Rivers State came as the Supreme Court dismissed the three separate appeals filed by the party and Tonye Cole, its factional governorship candidate in the state.
Both Cole and the APC had approached the Apex Court through their notices of appeal, praying it to make them participate in the 2019 general election. The Court however dismissed the separate appeals on the ground that the notices were incompetent in law.
The counsel to APC, Jibrin Okutekpa, at the resumed sitting, prayed the seven-man panel of the court to overrule its own decision, which had earlier upheld the refraining order that barred APC from participating in the poll
But the counsel to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP Emmanuel Okala drew the Court’s attention to the notice of appeal filed by APC, wherein the party erroneously prayed the Court of Appeal instead of the Supreme Court to grant its reliefs. In other words, APC had mistakenly addressed its notice of appeal to the Court of Appeal instead of the Supreme Court.
