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The Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has invalidated the Local Government and State Congresses conducted by the Tony Okocha-led All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State.
The Rivers State APC under the leadership of Okocha conducted the congresses in violation of a court order.
The new executives from the congresses were also inaugurated on December 14 by the National Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Ganduje.
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A suit challenging the congresses was filed by some party members who alleged that they were excluded from the process despite making the necessary payments.
In other news, the Edo State Assets Verification Committee set up by Governor Monday Okpebholo said it has uncovered massive fraud in the execution of projects by the immediate past government of Godwin Obaseki.
The Eastern Updates reports that the committee disclosed this at a press briefing to avail members of the public of its interim findings on some of the assets so far verified.
Chairman of the committee, Dr. Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe, who addressed the press, listed some of the projects where fraud was allegedly discovered as Radisson Hotel, Edo State Oil Palm Project and Edo State Information Communication Technology Agency, ICTA, among others.
Umakhihe said the transactions on the Radisson Hotel project leave so much to be desired.
According to him, the Radisson Hotel project was initiated by the State Government by sourcing over N17.5 billion from the Stock Market, and the sum of N2 billion was paid for the acquisition of land.