 A federal high court sitting in Port Harcourt River State has disqualified the governorship candidate of the Off-Regressives Congress, Patrick Tonya Cole, over dual citizenship and non-compliance to electoral act by his party. The People's Democratic Party in River State had approached the court to direct INEC not to recognize Patrick Tonya Cole as the governorship candidate of the APC for alleged dual citizenship and that the delegates election that brought him did not follow due process and his judgment, Justice Emmanuel Billet, agreed with the PDP that Tonya Cole was not eligible to contest the governorship position and that the APC primary was brought that brought in Patrick Tonya Cole was not monitored by INEC. In his reaction via telephone chat, one of the councils to PDP DK Udenna expressed happiness over the judgment.