The
Court of Appeal in Abuja yesterday sacked a member of the Rivers State
House of Assembly representing Opobo/Nkoro Constituency, Mr. Andrew
Miller. He is of the All Progressives Congress. He was declared winner
of the March 19, 2016 re-run.
The Justice Ibrahim Saulawa-led panel,
in an unanimous decision, nullified the Certificate of Return issued to
Miller by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
It ordered the commission to issue a
Certificate of Return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in
the re-run, Mr. Diri Adonye.
The panel described the election as
“massively rigged” in favour of Miller. It set aside the judgment of the
Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal which affirmed the election of
the APC and its candidate.
In the lead judgment read by Justice
George Mbaba, the Court of Appeal said the election was “massively
rigged” with figures fraudulently altered across the 11 wards in the
Opobo/Nkoro Constituency.
Justice Mbaba held that results of the
election were altered with figures fraudulently inflated and allocated
to the APC in the wards.
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