Sylva Dismisses Late Night Order On Dickson’s Candidacy

As the race to the Government House in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, takes twists and turns, Governor Timpre Sylva, has dismissed as “strange, despicable, and untenable” an Abuja Federal High Court order granted late Wednesday night under an unusually heavy police presence, which compels the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to publish the name of Mr. Seriake Dickson as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the 11 February governorship election in the state.

The governor calls on INEC to challenge the “immoral, ungodly and pathetic” court order obtained by fraud in the dead of the night.

Speaking through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Doifie Ola, Sylva said the order and the processes leading to it are “a grave insult to the integrity of the judiciary”.

Governor Sylva notes that prior to the events of Wed