2023 NOT SAME AS 2019: APC Reacts To Nullification Of Rivers Primaries.
The All Progressive Congress (APC) has allayed the fears of its members and supporters on the High Court judgement which nullified all the primary elections conducted to choose the Party's candidates for the 2023 elections in Rivers State.
The Nigerian ruling Party at the centre says there is nothing to worry about as the scenario that led to the Party not fielding candidates in the 2019 elections in Rivers State, is not the same in the current election season, since the laws and rules of the game have changed.
The Rivers State APC Publicity Secretary, Darlington Nwauju indicated that the Party will appeal the judgement, describing the nullification of the primaries that produced all the candidates for the 2023 general elections in the State, as "dead on arrival", because according to him, the matter before the Court was within the jurisdiction of the APC.
Explaining the reason for his optimism that the High Court judgement will not stand, Nwauju in a Press Statement to Journalists, said the Supreme Court had decided on a plethora of cases that political parties were their own Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and can regulate their own internal affairs.
The statement which africafirstnews.com has a copy lampooned the entire judgement, observing that the subject matter for which Justice E.A. Obile granted the reliefs sought by the plaintiffs to nullify the congresses of the Rivers State APC, which were entirely the internal party affairs, was not Justiceable, and therefore a travesty.
The Spokesman of the APC in Rivers State called the persons who went to Court against the APC as meddlesome interlopers because they were now members of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, and had no legal grounds to challenge matters that were internal to a Party they are not part of.
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