Mr Sylva's disqualification as APC's governorship candidate in Bayelsa State comes barely a month before the scheduled poll in the oil-rich state.
A month to the Bayelsa State governorship election, the Federal High Court in Abuja has disqualified former governor Timipre Sylva from the race.
But he later defected to the APC and became a minister in former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. He resigned his ministerial position in March to contest APC’s primary election. The suit which was filed in June by Mr Kolomo’s lawyer, Abiodun Amuda-Kannike, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , had INEC, the APC and Mr Sylva as defendants.These include whether having regard to the indisputable facts that Mr Sylva was elected to the office of governor of Bayelsa on two previous occasions; April 14, 2007, and May 24, 2008, he was qualified to contest the 11 November election in view of Section 82 of the 1999 Constitution .
In court filings, Mr Kolomo averred that the former oil minister was first elected to the office of governor, Bayelsa on 14 April, 2007 and assumed the said office on 29 May, 2007, and was in the said office until 15 April, 2008 when his election on 14 April, 2007, was nullified by the Court of Appeal. He was consequently removed from office.
Mr Kolomo also noted that the question raised in the case was a constitutional one and of grave importance to him as a voter and other voters in the state so that they would not vote for someone who was not qualified to contest in the poll and had their votes wasted at the end of the day.
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