The Supreme Court has upheld the annulment of the All Progressives Congress primaries in Rivers State by a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt. The High Court on January 7, 2019, in its ruling restrained INEC from presenting Tonye Cole, Magnus Abe and other candidates APC presented for the Rivers State gubernatorial election. While the faction loyal to Amaechi produced Cole as its the state governorship candidate, the other loyal to Abe, produced him as its own candidate. The judge Kolawole Omotosho maintained that Rivers APC would not participate in the gubernatorial, Senate, House of Representatives and House of Assembly elections. Omotosho said the plaintiffs do not have legal standing given the fact that they hinged their request on the ruling of the state high court, which nullified primaries conducted by the APC.

Source: The Guardian February 08, 2019 13:52 UTC