BREAKING: APC will not be presenting Candidates in the next Election in Rivers as Court nullifies APC’s direct, indirect primaries in Rivers

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Monday nullified the direct and indirect primary elections allegedly conducted by two factions of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State .
Delivering judgment, Justice Kolawole Omotosho said both factions of the APC acted in disrespect of a pending suit before a Port Harcourt High Court .
It would be recalled that an APC governorship aspirant , Senator Magnus Abe ; and other party members had approached the court presided over by Justice Chinwedu Worgu , challenging their alleged exclusion from the primaries .
Abe and his supporters had alleged high-handedness and irregularities in the planned conduct of the party primaries .
Justice Omotosho held that the APC in Rivers State could not produce candidates for governorship, national and state assembly polls, while the matter was pending .
According to him, it is illegal for candidates for the 2019 elections to emerge from the two primaries conducted by the two factions .
The two primaries as claimed by the factions were held during the pendency of the matter at the state high court .
“Both the direct and indirect primaries claimed to have been held by the APC are illegal and cannot stand in the face of the law , ’’ he said .