Bayelsa APC primaries: ICPC, APC receive two petitions against varsity don

Two salient Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, person filed abstracted petitions earlier the All Progressives Congress, APC, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC.

The groups are challenging the eligibility of a Bayelsa-based professor, Prof. Princewill Woyinbrakemi Igbagara, to contention the Sagbama/Ekeremor Federal Constituency spot connected the level of the ruling enactment up of the 2027 wide elections.

The petitions, some dated May 7, 2026, were filed by the Centre for Policy Advocacy and Leadership Development and the Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre successful Africa (PAACA).

Though filed separately, some organizations raised identical concerns, that Igbagara, an indigene of Isoni Community successful Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, simultaneously holds the presumption of prof and lecturer astatine the Federal University, Otuoke, portion besides serving arsenic Special Adviser to the Bayelsa State Governor connected Science and Technology, and had held some roles concurrently arsenic precocious arsenic April 20, 2026.

Both groups argued that this dual concern of remunerated nationalist offices, 1 astatine a national instauration and different arsenic a governmental appointee, runs contrary to established nationalist work regulations and ethical guidelines governing struggle of involvement and treble remuneration from nationalist funds.

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