'Judgment sacking Bayelsa APC Exco can't stand judicial scrutiny'

• Published date: 22 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

BAYELSA State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Dennis Otiotio, has urged the party members and supporters not to be bothered by a High Court judgment in Yenagoa which purportedly sacked the state executive council (Exco) and nullified the ward, local government and state congresses of the party.

Reacting to the ruling yesterday, Ototio said the 'kangaroo' judgment delivered by a Judge, who is direct brother of the Special Adviser to Bayelsa State Governor on Political Matters, Chief Collins Cocodia, could not stand the test of judicial scrutiny. The Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa had on Friday sacked the APC Exco and nullified all the ward, local government and state congresses held between 3rd and 4th of September, 2021 and 16 October, 2021.

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