Sim Fubara has been affirmed as the Governor of Rivers State.
His election was affirmed on Thursday by the Supreme Court.
In unanimous judgment on Thursday, a five-member panel of the court held that the appeal by Tonye Cole of the All Progressives Congress (APc) was unmeritorious.
In the lead judgment, Justice Ibrahim Saulawa held that Cole and the APC failed to prove their case with suffencient evidence.
Justice Saulawa resolved all the four issues identified for determination in the appeal against the appellants’.
He proceeded to dismiss the appeal.
Details shortly…