Fred Itua, Abuja
Ahead of next Saturday’s governorship election in Rivers State, Accord Party (AP) has teamed up with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to wrest power from Governor Nyesom Wike.
This is as the party rejected the candidature of Mr. Precious Baridoo as its gubernatorial candidate for March 9 governorship election, insisting that Dumo Lulu-Briggs remains its validly nominated candidate for the polls.
A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, had on Thursday, ruled that Dumo Lulu-Briggs was not the duly nominated gubernatorial candidate of Accord Party (AP) in the state and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to enlist Precious Baridoo as the authentic candidate.
The party promised to appeal a Federal High Court judgment that sacked Lulu-Briggs as its gubernatorial candidate. The National chairman of the party, Muhammad Lawal Nalado, while briefing journalists yesterday in Abuja, said the party never at any time submitted Baridoo as its candidate to INEC, adding that Baridoo never participated in the process of electing the party’s flag bearer and he did not pay for expression of interest.
