INEC speaks on Supreme Court ruling on Bayelsa governorship
Nigeria’s electoral commission, INEC, has said it would study the ruling of the Supreme Court judgment nullifying the election of the candidate the All Progressives Congress , David Lyon, as the winner of the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa.led by Mary Odili sacked Mr Lyon on the grounds that his deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, presented false information before the commission.
The judge also ordered that INEC should immediately declare the party with the highest number of lawful votes and geographical spread, the winner.But an INEC spokesperson, Festus Okoye, said the commission ”would go back to its operations department and find out which political party came second in the polls as required by the courts,” DailyTrust reported.
“So, what the commission would do is to go back to its operations department and make a determination on which political party came second in the election and which political party got the geographical spread in the election,” he said.
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