A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has nullified all the primary elections conducted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State over unlawful exclusion of some members of the party as delegates to the primaries.
One George Orlu and four others had approached the court requesting that the primaries of APC in the state be nullified following their alleged exclusion as delegates in the process.
Justice E.A.Obile in a judgment agreed with the plaintiffs that they were wrongly excluded in the election of delegates to participate in the party primaries.
Our correspondent reports that Justice Obile, therefore, ruled that all those elected from the primaries are nullified and should not be recognised as candidates for the 2023 general election.
There is fear that what befell the APC in the 2019 elections in which the party was barred from participating in the elections because of sundry litigations, may repeat itself in 2023.
It would be recalled that some candidates of the state APC had earlier raised the alarm of plan to use the court by the state governor, Nyesom Wike, and the PDP to stop the APC and other political parties from contesting the elections.
