The Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Tuesday, affirmed Mr Timipre Sylva as the validly elected candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s in the Nov. 11 Bayelsa governorship election.
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, restored Chief Timipre Sylva as the valid candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the Bayelsa state governorship election billed for November 11.
It will be recalled that the high court had in a judgement it delivered on October 9, declared that Sylva who is the immediate past Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, was not eligible to participate in the gubernatorial contest having already spent five years in office as governor of the state.
He declared that Sylva was not a valid candidate for the forthcoming Bayelsa state governorship poll. However, dissatisfied with the judgement, Sylva, in a three-ground notice of appeal he filed through his team of lawyers led by Dr. Ahmed Raji, SAN, faulted the high court judgement which he said was against the settled principles of law and notable precedents.
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