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Court Sacks Tonye Cole, Rivers APC Governorship Candidate

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Tonye Cole, a candidate for governor from the Rivers All Progressives Congress (APC), has been declared ineligible by Justice Emmanuel Adema Obile of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt.


The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) filed the lawsuit and requested that the candidate be disqualified.

Due to his voluntary acquisition of British citizenship and statement of allegiance to the same nation, his dual citizenship, his failure to be duly nominated by his political party, and his failure to comply with the Electoral Act's rules.


-INEC failing to oversee the delegate elections that led to his election.


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