AAC to expel Rivers gov’ship candidate over tribunal panel
The African Action Congress (AAC) has said it will expel its Rivers State governorship candidate in the 2019 elections, Mr. Awara Biokpomabo Festus, for allegedly plotting with some political forces to ensure the reconstitution of the election petition tribunal panel handling the party’s case. The AAC and its candidate, Festus are challenging the outcome of […]
The African Action Congress (AAC) has said it will expel its Rivers State governorship candidate in the 2019 elections, Mr. Awara Biokpomabo Festus, for allegedly plotting with some political forces to ensure the reconstitution of the election petition tribunal panel handling the party’s case.
The AAC and its candidate, Festus are challenging the outcome of the Rivers State governorship election in court, alleging that the PDP and its candidate, Governor Nyesom Wike, rigged the polls to emerge winner.
AAC National Chairman Dr. Leonard Nzenwa told newsmen, yesterday in Abuja, that the national leadership of the party had intercepted a letter written by one Tawo E. Tawo (SAN) allegedly on behalf of Mr. Festus without consultation with the party and without notice to all other parties involved in the election petition to the President of the Court of Appeal seeking the reconstitution of the panel.
He explained that Festu’s move was a violation of an order of the Court of Appeal, adding that the AAC would not be part of such arrangement.
“We take this position because Festus has boasted that the current panel will be disbanded and a new one reconstituted. He claims he demanded for the disbandment of the original panel and that he will do it again. He insists that his contact has assured him that the panel will be disbanded.
“These claims and the actions of Festus go a long way to taint the integrity of the office of the President of the Court of Appeal and decisive action must be taken including allowing the current tribunal panel to sit and conclude this matter thereby ending the empty boasts,” he said.