Appeal Court orders Bayelsa tribunal to play video on election cancellation

The Court of Appeal Division in Abuja yesterday ordered the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja to play in open court the video recording tendered as evidence by the for­mer Governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva.

Sylva who was the All Pro­gressives Congress (APC) gover­norship candidate, is challenging the election of Governor Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP) over alleged malpractices in the conduct of the polls that brought Dickson to office as Bayelsa State gover­nor between December 2015 and January 2016.

In a unanimous judgment on an interlocutory appeal filed by Sylva the appellate court set aside the ruling of the Tribunal deliv­ered on May 10, 2016 which re­jected the request of Sylva to play the video which was tendered as evidence.