Rivers Guber: ALDRAP writes INEC, seeks Chinda’s disqualification after Supreme Court judgment

The Association of Legislative Drafting Practitioners, ALDRAP, has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, seeking the disqualification of Kingsley Chinda arsenic the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship campaigner successful Rivers State for the 2027 election.

The request, conveyed successful a missive dated September 26, 2027, and signed by Executive Secretary, Dr Tonye Clinton Jaja, flows from a suit pending earlier an Abuja Federal High Court successful which ALDRAP is the plaintiff portion INEC, Abdul Mahmud, APC, APC National Chairman, Chinda and Mariana Ajibola are listed arsenic respondents.

In the suit numbered FHC/ABJ/CS/972/2026, ALDRAP asked the Abuja Federal High Court to disqualify Chinda and the APC candidates for the Rivers State House of Assembly predetermination connected the grounds that the APC Rivers State Governorship and House of Assembly Appeal Committee was populated by Chinda’s friends and colleagues, who are members of the House of Representatives successful the National Assembly.

Reliefs sought by the plaintiff see a declaration that the assignment of Mahmud and Ajibola arsenic chairmen of the APC Rivers State House of Assembly screening and entreaty committees, respectively, contempt their longstanding governmental and idiosyncratic narration with Chinda and persons aligned with Federal ...