The battle for Bayelsa West and Central senatorial districts has shifted from campaign grounds to the courts.As scheming for the two vacant senatorial seats for Bayelsa State intensify, the court might just be a major factor in the process of how the occupants eventually emerge going by the legal drama that is playing out.
APC candidate in the Bayelsa West senatorial bye-election is former speaker and former deputy governor of the state, Peremobowei Ebebi, while Chief Abel Ebifemowei, a relative of the first governor of the state, late Chief Diepreye Solomon Alameisegha, is the party’s candidate in the Central Senatorial district.
The APC in Bayelsa State will not forget in a hurry how on February 13, 2020, the Supreme Court annulled the election of Chief David Lyon as governor and declared Diri of PDP winner despite the huge votes APC recorded in the election. The plaintiff contended that the academic credentials and voter’s card which the defendant submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission for the bye-election were forged documents.
Iguaba told journalists in an interview that the court also declared that the APC candidate was not validly nominated, and disqualified him from contesting in the Bayelsa West senatorial polls. But a member of his campaign team, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the issue, said the APC candidate will appeal the judgment.
Owoupele through his lawyers, Messrs. A.O. Aniso and A.E. Aluzu, had sought to disqualify Dickson from participating in the election for allegedly supplying false information to INEC. The petition, which is dated October 19 and titled ‘Petition of Bias, Partisanship, Outright Subversion of the Will of the Electorates and Active Participation in the Politics of Bayelsa State Against Hon Justice Jane .E. Inyang’ had asked for the transfer of all cases concerning the party from her court.
Investigations however reveal that with the disqualification of its candidate for the Bayelsa West election, APC intends to have the cases on the electoral issues transfered from the court in Yenagoa. But a chieftain of APC in the state, Hon. Sunday Frank-Oputu absolved the Judiciary of any blame over the ruling disqualifying their candidate.
Nevertheless, INEC has said the APC and it’s candidate can still participate in the Dec. 5, Bayelsa West Senatorial bye-election if the Appeal Court ordered the restoration of the party’s logo and it’s candidate in the ballot.
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