Princewill Sued for N10bn for Parading as LP Governorship Candidate

The ambition of Prince Tonye Princewill to contest the 2015 governorship election in Rivers state on the platform of the Labour Party (LP) may be on the line as his kinsman, Prince Joseph Princewill, has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt to stop him from parading himself as the gubernatorial candidate of the party.

The litigant has also asked the court to compel Princewill to pay him N10 billion as damages for surreptitiously claiming the party’s ticket through a proxy for the 2015 governorship elections against the provisions of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

But Princewill has dismissed the suit as a non-issue, saying the litigant did not pay for the governorship form he claimed to have purchased from the party.

The litigant, Joseph, and Princewill come from the same town, Buguma, the headquarters of Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.

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