5th November, 2022
By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt on Friday asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to de-recognize three National Assembly candidates of the Labour Party, LP, in Rivers State.
The PDP had taken the LP to court over alleged non-compliance to the new Electoral Act by Labour Party in the conduct of the primaries that produced the candidates.
The candidates affected are those of Obio-Akpor federal constituency and the Port Harcourt federal constituencies 1 and 2.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Stephen Daylop-Pam, in his judgment agreed with the claim of the PDP in its originating summons that the primaries of the Labour Party were not monitored by INEC.
But LP said that it will appeal the judgement.