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An appellate court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Tuesday dismissed Bayelsa’s erstwhile Governor Henry Seriake Dickson’s New Year’s day High Court verdict disqualifying the candidacy of the All Progressives Congress Senatorial candidate of for APC Bayelsa West, Wilson Ayakpo Dauyegha.
National Wire reports that supporters of the APC candidate, Wilson Ayakpo Dauyegha took to major towns and villages in the creeks of the state Western senatorial district to celebrate the Appellate Court verdict, dismissing a High Court judgement delivered earlier against Dauyegha earlier in Yenagoa, the state capital on new year’s day.
Describing the ruling as divinely orchestrated and a sign that Dauyegha of the APC is poised to being victorious in the Senatorial polls, respondents during an interview with our correspondent, expressed dissatisfaction with the incumbent Senator Seriake Dickson of the the PDP, whom they alleging that latter do not abide by the existing zoning arrangement in the district.
They condemned Senator Dickson’s unsuccessful antics of adopting under arm tactics to boot out his opponents from the Senatorial race at all cost as a do-or-die affair, saying they foresaw his imminent defeat and his rejection by the electorate at the polls.
They affirmed that with the Appellate’s Court’s Valentine day verdict reinstating Hon. Dauyegha on the ballot, the people of the Senatorial district, comprising Sagbama-Ekeremor local government areas, they were sure to thumb their votes for the APC to carry the day in next week’s February 25th Senatorial Polls.
In a chat with our man, an elated Dauyegha popular referred as WAD, who also doubles as the incumbent Deputy Minority Whip in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, the APC Senatorial hopeful dedicated the Appellate Court victory to God and the impartial Judges who looked at the merit of the appeal to dismiss the case of Senator Dickson against him.
He expressed delight that with this verdict, INEC still maintains his name and party logo on the ballot for the Bayelsa West Senatorial polls, expected to hold next week Saturday, just as he urged his teeming supporters to troop out en masse on election day to cast their votes in favour of the APC at all levels.
He said: “I thank God Almighty who has made this Appeal Successful. I appreciate the Appeal Court Justices for their impartiality and for giving succour to the people as the last hope of the common man. I believe that even if my detractors decide to take the matter to the Apex Court, this verdict shall be sustained owing to the merit of my case as argued by my lawyers led by Barr. F.B. Olorogun, whom I am very thankful to and confident of his professional legal experiences to do justice to this matter.
“With this Victory at the Appellate Court, the people of Bayelsa West District are happy that I am back on the ballot, not just to challenge the incumbent who is a former two-time Governor that failed woefully for eight years and has blatantly jettisoned the same zoning agreement between the people of Sagbama-Ekeremor and wants to cause mischief and conflict between us.
“The People are saying capital ‘NO Way’! We stand by the gentleman zoning agreement and come poll day, we shall thumb for the Ekeremor candidate, which is myself and my party, the APC.”
While urging the voters to come out on election day to vote the APC to the next level, Dauyegha assured the electorates of Sagbama-Ekeremor to go for effective representation at the red chambers of the National Assembly when he is voted into power come next week.
It will be recalled that a Yenagoa High Court had on New Year’s Day 2023 granted the prayers of the incumbent Senator representing Bayelsa West Senatorial district, former Governor Henry Seriake Dickson to disqualify his main opponent for the Bayelsa West Senatorial poll, Hon. Wilson Ayakpo Dauyegha, over alleged irregularities in INEC’s documentation of the APC candidate’s details.
Dauyegha had immediately filed an appeal upon the High Court Judgement against his candidacy and was granted a reinstatement into the Senatorial race on Tuesday, Valentine’s Day, February 14th 2023, by the Court of Appeal Sitting in Port Harcourt as being duly fit to contest the Senatorial polls.
