Rivers: Court Reserves Judgement Over Appeal Filed By APC’s Tonye Cole

The Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt has reserved its judgement concerning an appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, and its governorship candidate, Tonye Cole.

Naija News reports that the court took a decision to reserve its judgement for a later date over the Rivers APC and Cole’s appeal against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

It was gathered that after listening to the arguments of counsels for both parties, the three-man panel of the appeal led by Justice Joseph Ikyegh, reserved judgment on a date to be communicated to the parties.

Naija News recalls that the Rivers State chapter of the APC and Cole had appealed the judgement of a High Court that nullified Cole’s candidacy as the governorship candidate of the APC in the state.

This was after the PDP in the state dragged the APC and its governorship candidate to court seeking the sack of Cole.

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt presided over by Justice Emmanuel Obile had in his judgment on a suit filed by the PDP ruled that Cole be disqualified as the governorship candidate of APC for allegedly having dual citizenship and that the APC violated the Electoral Act in the conduct of the congresses and the primary election that brought in Cole as a candidate.

Similarly, the Appeal Court in Port Harcourt also reserved judgment on an appeal filed by 3 Labour Party candidates for the Rivers State House of Assembly for Obio-Akpor constituencies 1 and 2 as Tai State Constituency against the judgment of a Federal High Court, which nullified their candidacies.