The Supreme Court has upheld the choice of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State to field David Lyon as the party’s candidate for the last governorship election in the state.
A five-man panel of the court, led by Justice Mary Odili, in a judgment on Tuesday, February 11, 2020, dismiss the appeal marked: SC/35/2020, by former minister of state for agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri against the nomination of Lyon as the APC’s governorship candidate.
Lokpobiri had queried the APC’s decision to submit Lyon’s name to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as its candidate.
John Inyang Okoro, the presiding judge who read the Supreme Court’s lead judgment on Monday, February 10, 2020, held that Lokpobiri’s case was statute-barred, having not been filed within the. 14 days allowed under the 4th Alteration Act as contained in Section 285 of the Constitution.
Okoro affirmed a similar judgment earlier given by the Court of Appeal on the issue.
