Rivers Guber Poll: Victory For PDP As Supreme Court Dismisses APC’S, Cole’s Appeals - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Publisher (J.T)
April 12, 2019
The end of the road for the All ProgressivesCongress, APC in the 2019 general elections in Rivers State came as the SupremeCourt 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 Courtthrough their notices of appeal, praying it to make them participate in the2019 general election. The Court however dismissed the separate appeals on theground that the notices were incompetent in law.
The counsel to APC, Jibrin Okutekpa, at the resumedsitting, prayed the seven-man panel of the court to overrule its own decision,which had earlier upheld the refraining order that barred APC fromparticipating in the poll
But the counsel to the People’s Democratic Party,PDP Emmanuel Okala  drew the Court’sattention to the notice of appeal filed by APC, wherein the party erroneouslyprayed 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 Courtof Appeal instead of the Supreme Court.