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Photos showing sacked Bayelsa State Governor-elect, David Lyon, rehearsing for his inauguration which would have taken place tomorrow, have gone viral on social media.
The Supreme Court had today sacked Lyon of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and his running-mate, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo 24 hours to their inauguration.
A five-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Mary Peter-Odili ordered INEC to withdraw the Certificate of Return (CoR) issued to the APC candidate as the winners of the November 16, 2019 governorship election in the state.
See more photos of the sacked Bayelsa State Governor-elect, David Lyon, rehearsing for tomorrow’s botched inauguration:
The apex court in its unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Ejembi Eko also ordered INEC to issue fresh certificates to the candidates of the party with the next highest votes and with the required constitutional spread of votes in the results of the election.
Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed how it would give effect to today’s Supreme Court judgment.
INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Festus Okoye, said today in Abuja that the commission would go back to the drawing board to determine the party that meet up the Apex Court ruling.
“The Supreme Court has directed the commission to issue the Certificate of Return (CoR) to the political party that placed second in the Bayelsa governorship election and which also has the geographical spread in the election.
“So, what the commission would do is to go back to its Operation Department and make a determination on which political party came second in the election and which political party got the geographical spread in the election.
“Based on that, we would carry out the judgment of the Supreme Court. We would do that when we get the judgment of the Supreme Court so that we would know clearly what the Supreme Court want us to do and we would carry it out,” Okoye said.
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