The executive president of the Center for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, Comrade Debo Adediran, brought the ruling All Progressives Party, APC, the judiciary and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Lagos on Friday, to the cleaning, by the sentence issued by the supreme court on the election of governor in the state of Bayelsa.

Let us remember that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared the candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Douye Diri, as the winner of the Bayelsa gubernatorial elections.

The Bayelsa State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) expressed dismay at the Supreme Court ruling annulling the election of its candidate, David Lyon, as state governor-elect.

The Supreme Court ruled today that Lyon MP Ereminyor submitted falsified documents disqualifying the joint bid and candidacy and urged INEC to withdraw the certificate of return issued to them and reissue it to the next party with the constitutional extension required.

Doifie Buokoribo, the state’s APC publicity secretary, said the party was shocked by the development. “It is shocking, but one thing that is clear is that the Dickson administration must go tomorrow, there is no room for term extension even for a minute.

“It is clear that only APC delivered the required differential, as we won convincingly in five out of eight Local Government Areas (LGAs), so without that differential I don’t see how the PDP can achieve it, certainly the president of the State House of Representatives The assembly would be sworn in as acting governor.

“Those of them who celebrate at the PDP camp are doing so out of ignorance,” Buokoribo said. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that before news of the trial reached the city, APC worshipers were in high spirits preparing for the governor-elect’s inauguration on Friday.

But INEC Chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu told reporters in Abuja that as a result of the Supreme Court ruling disqualifying APC candidates from the election, the total number of votes cast now stands at 146,999 and the PDP candidate obtained 143,172 with geographic dispersion.

However, speaking to our correspondent about the outcome of the sentence, Debo stated that the Supreme Court does not care whose gored ox it is, as APC violated INEC’s rules and regulations on the submission of applicants.

The CACOL chief described APC as a victim of its arrogance for failing to establish a selection committee to carry out a due diligence check on the gubernatorial hopeful in Bayelsa state before wasting financial and other resources to sponsor the election, declared in favor of the PDP aspirants by the whit court.

It also clashed with the electoral regulator for failing to check and ensure that personal details such as names, qualifications and other information provided by the APC gubernatorial hopeful were correct, before allowing him to run in the election.

The head of CACOL wondered why Mrs. Mary Peter-Odili, wife of the former Governor of Rivers State, was appointed head of the five judges who handed down the sentence.

His words: “Ms Peter Odili is alleged to be PDP sympathetic and should have been allowed to head the team, although the judging team made a strong judgement, no matter whose gored steer it is.”

For his part, Comrade Bakare Kenny, Chairman of the Lagos State Chapter of the Civil Liberties Organization, CLO, said that the political problem in Bayelsa State is critical, where politicians in Nigeria play politics like games. .

He indicated that once the supreme court dictates a sentence in favor of the aspiring governor of the PPD, the law must be complied with and the man sworn in, to avoid anarchy.