The former Leader of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd of the All Progressives Congress, has again failed in his bid to return to the House.
The Rivers State Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Friday upheld the election of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,Hon. Sam Ogeh of Emohua State Constituency.
Lloyd, who lost in the March 19, 2016 re-run Legislative Assembly Election in the State, had approached the Elections Petitions Tribunal seeking the nullification of the election result, which produced Ogeh.
Similarly, the election of Hon. Michael Chinda, the member representing Obio/Akpor Constituency II, also of the PDP, has been upheld in a unanimous judgment delivered on Friday in a petition filed by the APC candidate in the election, Wali Believe Azeru.
The latest judgments followed that of Wednesday, which were in favour of the PDP candidates – Hon. Blessing Charles Nsiegbe of Port Harcourt Federal constituency 1, Hon. Edison Ehie and Hon. Martins Mannah of Ahoada East I and II State constituencies respectively.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the PDP, Bro Felix Obuah, has expressed joy over the victories of the party’s candidates at the Elections Petitions Tribunal.
Obuah described the development as a vindication of the PDP as well as confirmation of Rivers State’s people’s acceptance and mandate for the party.
He commended the Tribunal’s judges for their objectivity in handling the matters before them and urged them to maintain the tempo in the interest of the nation’s democracy and the rule of law.
Obuah congratulated the PDP candidates on their overwhelming victories and urged them to remain focused, development-sensitive and give the people of their various constituencies and the entire State purposeful legislations in line with the good governance principles of Governor Nyesom Wike.
“In all of this, we give thanks and glory to God,” Obuah said.
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