The Court of Appeal has set aside the judgment of Justice Iyang Ekwo disqualifying senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo as the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the just concluded Bayelsa governorship election.
In a unanimous judgment of a three-man panel of the appeal court delivered by Justice Abudulahi, the appellate court held that the Justice Ekwo of the trial court erred in law and in breach of the appellants right to fair hearing.
According to him, the case which was brought under section 36 of the electoral act is criminal in nature and the respondents in the case ought to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Senator Degi-Eremienyo gave false information in his form Coo1 submitted to INEC as part of his qualifications to contest the election.
