The National Assembly candidates of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State have succeeded in their agitation to have Justice Stephen Daylop-Pam of a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt removed from hearing a suit by the People’s Democratic Party seeking to disqualify them from the general elections.
the suit has now been reassigned to a new judge Justice A .T Mohammed.
Justice Mohammed has already fixed 19th October 19, 2022 for mention.
Recall that the APC national assembly candidates had repeatedly called on Justice Daylop-pam to recuse himself from their matter, over his alleged relationship with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike.
But Justice Daylop-pam had in several sittings declined from ruling on the motion to recuse himself from the suit.
The APC candidates subsequently wrote a petition to the National Judicial Commission and later took the matter to the Court of Appeal.