Rivers guber: APC loses appeal to Wike, PDP

Rivers guber: APC loses appeal to Wike, PDP 

By Our Reporter  on October 30, 2015   Politics

… Market women barricade P’Harcourt roads for gov
From Godwin Tsa, Abuja, Innocent Emmanuel and Favour Kalu, Port Harcourt
Abuja division of the Court of Appeal yesterday turned down a request by the Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governorship candidate, Dakuku Peterside, to reinstate all paragraphs containing allegations of electoral crime against  named and un-named security agents and alleged political thugs in an interlocutory appeal filed against the ruling  of the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal expunging the same from the tribunal’s record.
 Accordingly, the appellate court finally expunged from judicial records of the Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal all the said evidences.
 Meanwhile, market women in Rivers State, yesterday barricaded Aba Road, towards Mile 1 flyover in Port Harcourt to protest the nullification of the election of Governor Nyesom Wike by the Rivers State governorship election petition tribunal.
 The women insisted they participated in the election and gave their mandate to Wike. Drawn from across different local governments of the state, the women carried pladcards of different inscriptions amidst shouts of, “We want justice.”
Leader of the protesting women, Mrs. Charity Agbonyo, said the women decided to protest and pray because they want justice.
 She said: “They said it (tribunal’s ruling) is justice. What kind of justice is that? Wike is the person we want. We want him to rule us because just few days in office, everybody knows there is government in Rivers.”