Appeal Court Clears Sylva To Contest Bayelsa Governorship Election

 

Jubilation has broken in camp  of APC in Bayelsa state as the Court of Appeal, Abuja division  has cleared the immediate past minister of petroleum,  Timipre Sylva the All Progressives  Congress. Candidate for the November 11 governorship election in Bayelsa state. 

The court said that  the respondent in the appeal, Deme Kolomo, a member of the APC lacked the legal right to approach the court for an order to disqualify Sylva. 

Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, had on October 9, disqualified Sylva as candidate of APC in the election. 

Justice Okorowo in his judgement held that Sylva has spent more than four years in office as governor. 

Deme Kolomo, a member of the APC in the state dragged Sylva before the court asking it to disqualify  him.