Breaking: (Bayelsa Guber Polls) Court disqualifies Timipre Sylva from standing election

The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, has been disqualified from running in the Bayelsa State election on November 11 by the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Monday saw the announcement of the judgment by Justice Donatus Okorowo.

Okorowo concluded that Sylva would violate the 1999 constitution as modified if she were permitted to run for office again after being twice sworn in and serving as the state’s governor for five years.

Sylva would have served as the state’s governor for more than eight years if he won and was sworn in, according to the judge, who ruled that he was ineligible to run in the upcoming election in November.

Okorowo asserted that the drafters of the country’s constitution declared that no one should be elected governor more than twice and that the parties to the lawsuit agreed that Sylva was elected twice, citing the Supreme Court case of Marwa vs. Nyako.

The judge claims that the Supreme Court determined in the Marwa v. Nyako case that no one can broaden the scope of the constitution.

According to this argument, if Sylva was permitted to run for office again, anyone could do the same.