By Emem Idio

Yenagoa—THE Bayelsa State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, is demanding the resignation of the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr. Konbowei Benson, following a Court of Appeal ruling which annulled his election victory.

However, while supporters of the Speaker and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state insist that the Court of Appeal ruling did not ask him to vacate the seat pending a re-run election, the APC, through the counsel to the petitioner, had submitted certified copies of the ruling to the State Attorney General and the Clerk of the House of Assembly showing proof of the court ruling.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, had on December 9, declared as null and void the election of the Speaker, Benson and ordered a fresh re-run election in Constituency 4 of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state.