A seven-man panel of the Supreme Court, Wednesday, dismissed the six appeals filed against governor Duoye Diri and his deputy, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo.
In a unanimous judgement by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, the apex court then affirmed Diri and Ewhrudjakpo as governor and deputy governor of Bayelsa state.
Justice Ngwuta, in his judgement, predicated the dismissal of the appeals on the withdrawal of the six appeals by lawyers of the appellants, Channels Television is reporting.
The appeals dismissed were filed by the Alliance for Democracy, Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party and Labour Movement.
Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party came second in the last year’s governorship election in the state.
He was later declared the elected governor of the state in a subsequent Supreme Court judgment disqualifying the All Progressives Congress’s candidate David Lyon who earlier emerged the winner of the poll.
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