BREAKING: Court restrains INEC from recognizing Cole, Abe as Rivers APC Governorship candidates

A Federal High court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, has given a judgement restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from presenting Tonye Cole and Magnus Abe as candidates in the 2019 elections in Rivers State.

The court also nullified all direct and indirect primaries conducted by both factions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

Justice James Omotosho, while delivering the judgement in Port Harcourt on Monday said none of the primaries were conducted according to the law.