The Supreme Court has sacked the governor-elect of Bayelsa
State, David Lyon, of APC and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremieoyo.
The five-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Mary
Peter-Odili in its ruling delivered today Thursday February 13th, annuled the
election on grounds that the deputy governor-elect, Degi-Eremieoyo, ran for the
election with forged certificates.
The court ordered the Independent National Electoral
Commission to withdraw the certificate of Return issued to the All Progressives
Congress’ candidates as the winners of the November 16th 2019 governorship
election in the state and issue fresh certificates to the candidates of the
PDP, Douye Diri who reportedly scored the next highest number of votes during
the election.
This judgement comes barely a month after the Supreme court
annulled the election of PDP's Emeka Ihedioha in Imo state and instated Hope
Uzodinma of the APC.
