There is no going back in Saturday’s governorship election in Bayelsa State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Thursday. The commission said it would obey all legitimate court orders served on it in respect of the poll.
The Federal High Court in Yenagoa on Thursday nullified the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries that produced Chief David Lyon as the party’s candidate . The judgment was on a case filed by one of the APC governorship aspirants, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri.
INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of its Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye, told The Nation that the commission had deployed all it needed for the elections, adding that the polls would go on as planned. He said the election would go ahead with its plans for the election, using the materials already prepared before the judgment was given. He said: “If there’s any court order concerning what we are doing, we will obey all court orders because that has been the tradition of the commission; to obey all legitimate court orders.”
