Bayelsa Poll: INEC Speaks On APC Participation

Bayelsa Poll: INEC Speaks On APC Participation
INEC National Commissioner Festus Okoye/file

There is no judgement barring the All Progressives Congress (APC) from partaking in the Saturday governorship election in Bayelsa State, the National Headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has clarified.

INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, made the clarification on Friday.

The INEC Commissioner insisted that the judgement of the Federal High Court in Yenagoa delivered by Justice Jane Inyang did not make an order stopping APC as a political party from participating in the election.

Okoye, who spoke on Sunrise Daily, a magazine of Channels Television confirmed that the poll would go on as planned by the commission.

In an order issued on Thursday, Justice Inyang Ekwo, nullified Lyon’s nomination as the party’s flag bearer in the forthcoming election over failure to field a qualified deputy governorship candidate in the election.

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