The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt has affirmed the judgment of the Rivers State High Court which nullified the congresses that produced the Tony Okocha-led executive of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State.
Justice Obomanu of the Rivers State High Court had on December 20, 2024, voided the APC congresses conducted in the state, ruling that the process which produced Tony Okocha and other executive members was invalid.
Dissatisfied with the judgment, Okocha and members of his executive approached the Court of Appeal in Suit No. CA/PH/523/2024 seeking to overturn the lower court’s decision.
However, in a ruling delivered on Friday, Justice Elfreida Oluwayemisi Williams-Dawodu of the Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt Division, upheld the judgment of the High Court, thereby affirming the nullification of the congresses.
The appellate court’s decision effectively sustains the sack of the Okocha-led executive and casts doubt on all actions, correspondences, representations and communications carried out on behalf of the APC in Rivers State by the dissolved executive between December 20, 2024 and the date of the ruling.
