THE SUPREME COURT DECIDES GOV. WIKE'S FATE TODAY.

The Supreme Court will on Wednesday begin hearing on the appeal brought by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state, challenging the Court of Appeal ruling which upheld the nullification of his election by the Election Petition Tribunal. Wike filed 20 grounds of appeal to the Supreme Court, alleging that the election tribunal relied on hearsay and legally inadmissible evidence to arrive at its judgment as well as violated his constitutional right
of fair hearing. All the three Senators under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from Rivers state lost their seats at both the Election Tribunal and Appeal Courts and a rerun election was ordered within 90 days. Details later….