Rights group demands evidence in suit against Rivers APC guber candidate

A rights radical has called connected the absorption against the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship campaigner successful Rivers State, Kingsley Chinda, to backmost their claims with wide grounds showing helium remained progressive successful the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, aft April 2, 2026.

The radical said Chinda had already resigned arsenic Minority Leader of the House of Representatives earlier participating successful the APC governorship process and had not taken portion successful immoderate PDP-related activities since then.

The telephone by the Centre for Constitutional Governance and Electoral Integrity, CCGEI, successful Rivers State, follows a lawsuit filed astatine the Federal High Court successful Abuja,is seeking an bid barring the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising Chinda’s information successful the APC governorship primary.

In a statement, Ibrahim Danjuma, CCGEI Executive Director, dismissed the lawsuit arsenic unfounded and politically motivated.

Danjuma further challenged the petitioners to nutrient verifiable impervious that Chinda attended PDP meetings, acted successful a PDP capacity, oregon continued arsenic Minority Leader aft April 2, 2026.

He said, “The process has been concluded. Hon. Kingsley Chinda is the duly emerged governorship campaigner of the APC successful Rivers state,” the connection reads.

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