Anxiety as Appeal Court Sacks Wike-backed APC Exco in Rivers

•No threat to status of EXCO pending full trial, party insists

Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt

An Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, has upheld the judgment of the Rivers State High Court nullifying the congresses that produced the Tony Okocha-led executive of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

But in a swift reaction to the judgment, the Publicity Secretary of APC under the leadership of Okocha, Chibike Ikenga, urged party members not to panic, stressing that the facts of the judgment were deliberately misrepresented.

Dismissing the appeal filed by Okocha and members of his executive as registered in Suit No. CA/PH/523/2024, which seeks to overturn a lower court’s decision on the party’s leadership, the appellate court struck out the suit and ordered the parties back to the State High Court.