Rivers 2027: ADC Chieftain challenges APC to prove pegality of Chinda’s candidacy

A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has challenged the All Progressives Congress, APC, to beryllium the legality of its Rivers State candidate.

Eze was reacting to the caller judgement of the Supreme Court connected the validity of Sections 77(5), 77(6), 77(7) and 84(2) of the Electoral Act, 2026, describing it arsenic a important judicial reaffirmation that governmental parties indispensable behaviour their interior electoral processes wrong the bounds of the instrumentality and cannot dainty statutory requirements arsenic matters of governmental convenience.

The Supreme Court, successful its judgement of September 24, 2026, restored the validity of the provisions relating, among different things, to the rank registry to beryllium submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the usage of that registry successful the behaviour of enactment primaries, congresses and conventions.

Section 77(5) requires that lone members whose names look successful the party’s registry submitted to INEC wrong the prescribed play whitethorn enactment successful the applicable enactment exercise, portion Section 77(6) prohibits the usage of a antithetic rank registry for that exercise.

According to Eze, Section 77(7) goes further by prescribing consequences wherever a governmental enactment fails to comply with the ...