The Supreme Court on Thursday in Abuja dismissed a certificate forgery suit brought against a Senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has upheld Dr. Konbowei Friday-Benson as the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP for the Bayelsa Central Senatorial elections. The serving senator representing Bayelsa Central in the National Assembly, Senator Moses Cleopas had in May lost his bid to return to the Senate for a second term as he lost the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries to Konbowei Benson. Cleopas, a former state chairman of the PDP scored a paltry 22 votes out of 132 delegates that exercised their franchise.
For a variety of reasons, at least 58 senators will not seek reelection to the Senate in 2023 as the Nigerian culture of high turnover rate of lawmakers from every general election continues.