The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in Bayelsa West senatorial district by-election, Peremobowei Ebebi, has been disqualified from the exercise over document forgery.
Ebebi was disqualified from the forthcoming poll by a Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital on Wednesday.
The presiding judge, Justice Jane Inyang, in a judgment, yesterday, on a the case of forgery filed by Richman Samuel, a former director of Domestic Matters, Government House, Yenagoa against the APC candidate, upheld the plaintiff’s prayers and declared the APC candidate ineligible to contest the election.
The judge in her ruling held that the voter’s card the APC candidate submitted to INEC “bears a different age and, therefore, contradicts other of his documents and his filed INEC forms.”
Ebebi, who is a former deputy governor, emerged the APC senatorial candidate for Bayelsa West in a direct mode of primary election conducted in September by the party’s primary electoral committee headed by retired General Abdulsalam Dahiru.
INEC had fixed October 31 for the Bayelsa Central and West senatorial by-elections but the commission, on October 22, announced the indefinite postponement of the poll and 14 others due to the #EndSARS protest.
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