A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has nullified all the primaries conducted by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state over the unlawful exclusion of some members of the party as delegates to the primaries.
The court gave its ruling on Monday, following a suit brought before it by some aggrieved members of the APC who had, during the primaries of the party, lamented exclusion.
This is coming barely four months to the 2023 general elections.
Quest Times gathered that during the APC primaries, some members of the party had alleged exclusion and took their protests to the state secretariat of the party in Port Harcourt.
A claimant, George Orlu and four others who claimed to have purchased nomination forms, had approached the court requesting that the primaries of the APC in the state be nullified following their alleged exclusion from the process.
The court in its decision ruled that the persons were unlawfully excluded from the primaries.
Justice E.A. Obile held that the aggrieved persons were shut out of the primaries unlawfully, adding that the process amounted to nullity.
He, therefore, ruled that all those elected from the primary elections stand nullified and should not be recognised as candidates.