The Supreme Court on Thursday, 11th April 2019 dismissed the appeal filed by the All Progressives Congress (APC), requesting the Court to reverse its decision on the Party’s exclusion from Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections in the State. Hon. Justice Ibrahim Mohammed Tanko, in delivering the decision, described the application brought before the Court as “defective and lacking merit”. The Court had on Monday, 8th April 2019 struck out a motion brought by the Party seeking to determine its authentic candidate for the Governorship election in the State, due to failure to file the application within the stipulated time and joining unnecessary parties to the matter, in addition to its lack of merit. Two factions of the APC in the Rivers State have been in court over the issues of the Party’s candidature for the Governorship election in the State and its exclusion from State level elections. The litany of Court cases began from a High Court order granted in July 2018, restraining APC from conducting congresses in Rivers State and subsequently, judgements of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court followed, including a decision of the latter affirming the nullification of primaries conducted by a faction of the Party in the State. However, the most recent decision of the apex Court is indicative of an end to these contentions.