The executive president of the Center for the Fight against Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL, comrade Debo Adediran, led on Friday in Lagos the ruling All Progressives Party, APC, the judiciary and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to clean up, for the sentence issued by the supreme court on the election of governor in the state of Bayelsa.

Let us remember that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared the candidate of the Democratic People’s Party, Douye Diri, as the winner of the elections for Governor of Bayelsa.

The Bayelsa State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) expressed its dismay at the Supreme Court ruling annulling the election of its candidate, David Lyon, as governor-elect of the state.

The Supreme Court ruled today that the deputy for Lyon, Ereminyor, presented falsified documents disqualifying the joint candidacy and candidacy and urged the INEC to withdraw the return certificate that had been issued to them and reissue it to the next party with the constitutional extension required.

Doifie Buokoribo, the state’s APC publicity secretary, said the party was shocked by the development. “It is shocking, but one thing that is clear is that the Dickson administration must go tomorrow, there is no room for extension of the mandate even for a minute.

“Clearly only APC met the required differential as we won convincingly in five of the eight Local Government Areas (LGAs), so without that differential I don’t see how the PDP can pull it off, certainly the chairman of the State House of Representatives Assembly would be sworn in as acting governor.

“Those of them who celebrate in the PDP camp do so out of ignorance,” Buokoribo said. The Nigerian News Agency (NAN) reports that before news of the trial reached the city, APC faithful were in high spirits preparing for the governor-elect’s inauguration on Friday.

But INEC chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu told reporters in Abuja that under the Supreme Court ruling that disqualified APC candidates from the election, the total number of votes cast now stands at 146,999 and the PDP candidate obtained 143,172 with geographical dispersion.

However, when speaking to our correspondent about the outcome of the sentence, Debo stated that the Supreme Court does not care whose gored ox it is, since APC violated INEC rules and regulations on the presentation of applicants.

The CACOL chief described APC as a victim of its arrogance for failing to set up a selection committee to carry out a due diligence check on the gubernatorial hopeful in Bayelsa state before wasting financial and other resources to sponsor the election, declared in favor of the PDP hopefuls by the apex court.

It also took on the electoral regulator for failing to check and ensure that personal details, such as names, qualifications and other information provided by the APC gubernatorial hopeful, were correct, before allowing him to participate in the election.

The CACOL chief wondered why Ms. Mary Peter-Odili, wife of the former Governor of Rivers State, was appointed chief of the five judges who handed down the sentence.

His words: “Ms. Peter Odili is alleged to be a PDP sympathizer and should have been allowed to lead the team, although the judging team made a sound judgement, no matter whose gored ox it is.”

For his part, Comrade Bakare Kenny, President of the Lagos state chapter of the Civil Liberties Organization, CLO, said that the political problem in Bayelsa state is critical, where politicians in Nigeria play politics as if they were games. .

He indicated that once the supreme court rules in favor of the candidate for governor of the PPD, the law must be followed and the man sworn in, to avoid anarchy.