The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reversed the August 17, 2020 majority judgment of the Governorship Election Tribunal which sacked Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as Governor of Bayelsa State according to The Nation.
The election was nullified based on a petition by the Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party, which argued that it was unlawfully excluded from participating in the election.
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The party argued that it was unlawfully excluded from participating in the poll.
The ruling comes 48 hours after the tribunal dismissed three other petitions.
They were filed by the Alliance for Democracy (AD), the United People’s Congress (UPC) and the Liberation Movement (LM).
Diri has been reinstated as governor Bayelsa.
