‘Judiciary Has Vindicated Me’: Sylva Hails Judgement Returning Him As APC Candidate

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Timipre Sylva has hailed the Court of Appeal judgment that reinstated him as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the November 11 Bayelsa poll.A High Court had nullified Sylva’s candidature but the Court of Appeal on Tuesday said the lower court was wrong in its verdict.

“I just feel relieved because it was confusing when that judgment came, but I feel very relieved today,” he said on Channels Television’sThe Independent National Electoral Commission had delisted Sylva’s name from the governorship candidate’s roaster following the earlier judgment. The development surrounding his candidature, according to Sylva, was becoming a pattern similar to what happened when APC’s David Lyon was sacked as the governor-elect just before his swearing-in in 2020.INEC had declared Lyon as the winner of the 2019 Bayelsa State governorship election, but the Supreme Court in February of the following year sacked him over his deputy’s submission of a forged certificate to INEC and affirmed Douye Diri of the PDP as the governor.

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