The Federal High Court Port Harcourt on Monday restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognising candidates of both factions of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for this year’s general elections.
Justice J.K Omotosho gave the order, saying both factions of the APC acted in disrespect of a pending suit before a Port Harcourt High Court.
The APC governorship aspirant, Senator Magnus Abe and other party members had approached the court presided over by Justice Chinwedu Worgu, challenging their alleged exclusion from the primaries.
Mr. Abe and his supporters had alleged high-handedness and irregularities in the planned conduct of the party primaries.
Justice Omotosho expressed the view that the APC in Rivers State could not produce candidates for governorship, national and state assembly polls, while the matter was pending.
It is illegal for candidates for the 2019 elections to emerge from the two primaries conducted by the two factions, he held.
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