Timipre Sylva’s disqualification as the validly elected candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC)’s in the Nov. 11 Bayelsa governorship election has been reversed by the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Tuesday,
The three-member panel, in a unanimous judgment, said the trial court which nullified Sylva’s candidature has no right to entertain the suit filed by an APC member, Mr Demesuoyefa Kolomo, who was not an aspirant in the primaries that produced Sylva.
The court also awarded N1 million in favour of Sylva in the first appeal marked: CA/ABJ/CV/1060/2023 between APC and Kolomo.
The panel equally awarded the sum of N1 million in favour of Sylva in the appeal marked: CA/ABJ/CV/1061/2023 between Sylva vs. Kolomo and two others.
Sylva’s appeals were against the Oct. 9 judgment delivered by Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, which disqualified Sylva as candidate in the Nov. 11 election.
Kolomo, who described himself as a registered voter, had, in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/821/2023 filed on June 3, prayed the court to delete Sylva’s name from the list of candidates vying for the election, having taken an oath of office twice as governor of the state.
