JUST IN: Appeal Court Reverses Diri’s Sack As Bayelsa Gov

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reversed the August 17, 2020 majority judgment of the Governorship Election Tribunal which sacked Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the governor of Bayelsa State.   A five-man panel of the appellate court, in three unanimous judgments on Friday, held that the tribunal was wrong to have assumed jurisdiction over the petition filed on February 26, 2020, by the Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party (ANDP) and grant the reliefs sought by the petitioner. The Court of Appeal held among others, that the…