By James Jones
PORT HARCOURT/Nigeria: The governorship candidature of Chief Dumo Lulu-Brigs had been as the Accord Political Party in Rivers State had been consolidated as an Appeal Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State had given a ruling of stay of Execution against an earlier Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, which was delivered by Justice Obili.
Delivering his ruling on an application for stay of execution, brought before him by Wilcox Abereton SAN, the lead counsel to Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs, on Friday March 22, 2019, Justice A. Lamido of the Court of Appeal, Yenagoa, not only granted the application for stay of execution but further granted an injunction restraining Mr. Precious Baridoo from ever parading or presenting himself as the Rivers Accord governorship candidate, in relation to the March 9, 2019 Governorship election in Rivers state.
A statement issued by Sotonye Ijuye-Dagogo, Director of Communication, DLB Campaign Organization, on 22/03/19, noted that this ruling not only affirmed Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs as the authentic Rivers state Governorship candidate of the Accord, but also established the fact that he remains the INEC recognized governorship candidate of Accord in Rivers State and the person whose name was legally submitted to INEC by the National Working Committee of Accord for the 2019 governorship polls.
