Police can’t tell if Bayelsa will have a new governor today

It is unclear for now how the outgoing governor, Seriake Dickson, is running the state, having held a valedictory meeting with state officials Thursday.

“We are all waiting. We have not received any signal on the inauguration,” Mr Butswat, a superintendent of police, said.“It is calm, there is no cause for alarm. Security agencies are patrolling the streets right from yesterday up till this moment, so there is no problem at all. A five-member panel of the apex court led by Justice Mary Odili on Thursday nullified the election of the All Progressives Congress candidate, David Lyon on the grounds that his deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, presented false information to the Independent National Electoral Commission in aid of his qualification for the November 16 governorship election.

An official of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Bayelsa told PREMIUM TIMES this morning that they were yet to get any directive from their head office in Abuja. A national spokesperson for the commission, Festus Okoye, while responding to inquiries from PREMIUM TIMES on the issue, Friday morning, said INEC would not immediately issue a certificate of return to Mr Diri until the commission is done studying the ruling of the apex court.

“The only thing that is holding it is the certified true copy of the judgment of the Supreme Court,” the aide said.

That's not their job.

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