A suit challenging the eligibility of Governor Nyesom Wike for the 2019 governorship election in Rivers state has been strucked out.
In two unanimous judgments on Monday, July 15, a five-man panel of the Supreme Court upheld two appeals by Wike, with which he challenged the leave granted to Elvis Chinda by the Court of Appeal, The Nation reports.
Chinda had reportedly sued at the Federal High Court, querying, among others, the authenticity of birth certificate allegedly submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and prayed the court to disqualify Wike from contesting the last governorship election.
Recall that earlier this year, the Federal High Court dismissed the suit, a decision Chinda appealed at the Court of Appeal, Abuja. Finding out that his notice of appeal was wrongly addressed to the Federal High Court as against the Court of Appeal, Chinda later applied for leave to amend. Wike objected to the amendment sought by Chinda, on the grounds that he applied to amend outside the time allowed by law for him to appeal the judgment of the Federal High Court.
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