There is a dramatic twist to the governorship election in Bayelsa State as the Supreme Court has nullified the election of David Lyon and his running mate, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo of the App Progressives Congress.
Unlike other governors the court had sacked, Lyon does not have any personal problem but his deputy-elect has.
He was disqualified for presenting forged certificates and this is what affected Lyon.
The Yoruba call this kind of situation ‘adobe adobe’, which they always pray not to come their way.
The court ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to the All Progressives Congress’ candidates as the winners of the November 16, 2019 governorship election in the state.
Besides, it 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, which are the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidates.
Justice Ejembi Ekwo, who read the lead judgment of the apex, made the orders after disqualifying the APC’s deputy governorship candidate, Degi-Eremienyo, as a candidate in the election.
The court upheld the November 12, 2019 judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja which had disqualified Degi-Eremienyo in the election for submitting forged certificates to INEC.
The five-man panel of the apex court, led by Justice Mary Peter-Odili, ruled that Degi-Eremienyo’s disqualification had infected the joint ticket with which he and the governorship candidate, Lyon, ran for and won the November 16, 2019 election.
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