The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has for the second time postponed the Bayelsa governorship primaries slated for Saturday to Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
The latest postponement is sequel to the ruling of the Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa which granted an interim order restraining the APC from adopting direct primary for the rescheduled August 31 governorship primary.
Lanre Issa- Onilu, APC National Publicity in a statement Friday night said, “in deference to a court order, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has shifted the date for the Bayelsa governorship primary to Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4, September, 2019”.
APC had earlier shifted the Bayelsa governorship primaries scheduled to hold Thursday alongside the one in Kogi to Saturday and announced the adoption of direct primary for the state.
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“This is in compliance with the decision of the APC National Executive Committee, which grants state chapters and majority of party leaders in a state the right to decide on the mode of primary they wish to adopt”, Issa-Onilu said in a statement.
But in an enrolled order, Justice E. G. Omukoro of Bayelsa High Court granted an order upon hearing a motion ex parte moved by the applicant’s counsel, Gideon Elebe.
The applicants are Japan Christopher, Evinson Oyindeyinfa, Oddu Ovinmiebi and Obiriki Isaiah in which the respondents were the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole and other 19 members of the National Working Committee.
Joined as respondents were Jonathan Amos, Orubebe Ogeibiri, Alabo Martin and C.T Olorogun for themselves and on behalf of the State Executive Committee of Bayelsa APC.
The respondents have till September 5 to file and serve their response to the originating summons and orders of the court while the court fixed September 6 for hearing.
