Court dismisses suit seeking to sack Gov. Diri
Duruoye Diri
A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri on Tuesday dismissed a suit challenging the emergence of Sen. Duoye Diri as governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the September 3, 2019 governorship primary.
In his judgement, Justice Tijjani Ringim said that Diri, who is the incumbent governor of Bayelsa state, was duly elected as governorship candidate of the PDP, dismissing the suit for lack of merit.
“Evidence available to me indicates that the process leading to the emergence of Diri as candidate of the PDP in the September 3 governorship primaries in Bayelsa was legitimate.
”I hereby dismiss this suit for lack of merit, ” Ringim said.
A governorship aspirant in the PDP, Ndutimi Alaibe, had dragged the party, Diri and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court over what he described as a flawed primary election
