A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt Thursday declared the Accord Party governorship candidate in Rivers State, Dumo Lulu Briggs, unfit to contest in the March 9 governorship election.

According to the presiding judge, Justice Emmanuel Obile, Lulu Briggs did not participate in the primaries conducted on October 4, 2018.

The judge said Briggs was a governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the time of conducting the primary.

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Obile, therefore, declared Briggs’ candidacy as null, void and unconstitutional.

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The court, thereafter, ordered INEC to replace his name with the plantiff, Precious Baridoo as the candidate of the party.