Nigeria, Feb. 13 -- The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, says nobody should be sworn in as the new governor of Bayelsa State on Friday.

Mr Oshiomhole spoke after the Supreme Court sacked David Lyon of the APC as the governor-elect of the state and asked INEC to declare the candidate of the party with the next highest number of votes and required constitutional spread as the winner of the state's governorship election.

He hinged his statement on the condition added by the apex court, which instructed the electoral body to declare the party with the highest number of lawful votes and geographical spread as the winner.

Mr Oshiomhole, at a press briefing at the party's secretariat in Abuja shortly...