The Supreme Court has affirmed Siminalayi Fubara as the duly elected Governor of Rivers State.
A five-member panel of the Supreme Court upheld Fubara’s election victory in a decision on Thursday.
The panel in the lead judgment delivered by Justice Ibrahim Saulawa affirmed Fubara’s election shortly after it dismissed the appeal by All Progressives Congress, APC Tonye-Cole for being incompetent and lacking in merit.
According to Saulawa, the appellant did not prove his allegations of over-voting, non-compliance as well as non-qualification of Fubara to contest the election.
“This appeal is grossly lacking in merit and liable to be dismissed and it is accordingly dismissed”, Justice Saulawa held.
The apex court subsequently affirmed the concurrent judgments of the two lower courts which earlier dismissed the appeal for lacking in merit.
Mr Tonye-Cole had challenged Fubara’s victory in the poll.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared Fubara as the winner of the 2023 Rivers State governorship election.
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