The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt in a unanimous decision today struck out the appeal by Magnus Abe and 42 others seeking to be declared the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State.
The presiding judge, Justice Bitrus Sanga, who read the unanimous judgment dismissed Abe’s application as an “academic exercise” and lacking in merit.
Abe, a senator representing Rivers South East in the National Assembly, and some of his henchmen, has gone to court seeking to be declared the candidates of the APC in the state after conducting direct primaries in defiance of the national leadership of the party which had sanctioned indirect primaries for the state chapter of the party.
Today’s judgment by the Appeal Court puts to rest Abe’s reported quest to wrest power from the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi as the leader of the APC in Rivers State.
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