A Rivers State Excessive Courtroom sitting in Port Harcourt has reserved ruling in a swimsuit filed by the chairmanship candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, underneath the Emeka Beke-led faction of the get together within the August 30 native authorities elections.
The case was instituted by Fubara Dagogo and eight others towards the Rivers State Impartial Electoral Fee, RSIEC.
The presiding choose, Justice Stephen Jumbo, reserved ruling till Wednesday, November 5, after listening to arguments from each events on whether or not the case was statute-barred.
The claimants are looking for a perpetual injunction restraining RSIEC from recognising or accepting the outcomes of the APC primaries held on August 4, 2025, or another date.
They argue that they have been unlawfully substituted by the get together, whose checklist was forwarded to RSIEC in a letter dated August 7, 2025.
The claimants are asking the court docket to declare them the genuine winners of the election.
APC in Rivers State stays embroiled in a management tussle, with one faction led by Beke and the opposite by Tony Okocha.
