The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, says nobody should be sworn in as the new governor of Bayelsa State on Friday.
Mr Oshiomhole spoke after the Supreme Court sacked David Lyon of the APC as the governor-elect of the state and asked INEC to declare the candidate of the party with the next highest number of votes and required constitutional spread as the winner of the state’s governorship election.
Mr Oshiomhole, at a press briefing at the party’s secretariat in Abuja shortly after the court verdict on Thursday, said only the APC candidate met the “desired spread as expressed by the Supreme Court. Duoye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party came second in the November 16 governorship election with 143,172 votes, while Mr Lyon garnered 352,552 votes.
However, the constitutional requirement for a winner of a governorship election is having the highest number of lawful votes and securing 25 per cent of votes in two-thirds of the local governments in a state. Mr Diri of the PDP had the second highest number of lawful votes and also secured 25 per cent of votes in five of Bayelsa’s eight local governments.
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