The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate Chief Timipre Sylva, has been disqualified from running in the Bayelsa State election on November 11 by the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The ruling was delivered on Monday 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.
While citing the case of Marwa vs Nyako at the Supreme Court, Okorowo maintained that the drafters of the country’s constitution stated that nobody should be voted for as governor more than two times and that the parties to the suit agreed that Sylva was voted into office two times.
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.
