The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Monday has nullified all the primary elections conducted by the All Progressivess Congress (APC) in River State.
In judgment by Justice E. A Obile nullified all primary over the unlawful exclusion of some members of the party as delegates to the primaries.
The judgment is on a case filed against the APC by one George Orlu and four others who claimed to have purchased nomination forms and were alleged exclusion in the process.
They had approached the court requesting that the primaries of APC in the state be nullified.
The presiding justice in his judgment agreed with the plaintiffs that they were wrongly excluded in the election to participate in the party primaries and therefore nullified all primaries conducted by the APC towards the 2023 general elections.
He ruled that all those elected from the primary are nullified and should not be recognized as candidates.
However, the APC has reacted to the judgment, describing it as a travesty of justice as far as the party was concerned.
It said that following a Supreme Court judgment on many similar cases which suggests that political parties are their own Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and can regulate their own affairs the party would challenge the judgment at the Appeal Court.
