The Court of Appeal in Abuja has, on Thursday, sacked a member of the Rivers State House of Assembly representing Opobo/Nkoro Constituency, Mr. Andrew Miller.
Mr. Miller is a member of the All Progressives Congress [APC] who was declared the winner of the re-run held on March 19, 2016.
The Appeal panel, in an unanimous decision, nullified the Certificate of Return issued to Miller by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
It set aside the judgment of the Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal which affirmed the election of the APC and its candidate.
It, therefore, ordered the commission to issue a Certificate of Return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Mr. Diri Adonye.
The Justice Ibrahim Saulawa-led panel described the election as “massively rigged” in favour of Miller.
In the lead judgment read by Justice George Mbaba, the Court of Appeal said the election was rigged with figures fraudulently altered across the 11 wards in the Constituency.
Justice Mbaba held that results of the election were altered with figures fraudulently inflated and allocated to the APC in the wards.
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