Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has
frowned at the deploying of force by Senator Heineken Lokpobiri to secure the
PDP ticket for the Bayelsa – West Senatorial District, with misleading
information and outright forgery of party documents.
The Governor, who was speaking, when he visited the
scene of a clash between rival supporters of the winner of the party’s
primaries, Evangelist Foster Ogola and incumbent Senator, Heineken Lokpobiri,
who is challenging the candidacy of Evangelist Ogola in court, warned that, the
government will deal decisively with anybody or group of persons, no matter how
highly placed, that takes the law into their hands.
Reports have it that, supporters of Evangelist Foster
Ogola were irked, when the Judge, who had earlier been petitioned over his
lob-sided handling of the matter, went ahead to fix hearing and judgement for
today, without proper notification to both parties, even as the matter has been
moved away from his court.
Governor Dickson, who visited the scene of the clash
in the company of some heads of security agencies, condemned the action of Senator
Lokpobiri for manipulating the judicial process for judgement to be passed in
his favour, without the knowledge of the other party in the matter.
He advised the judiciary not to allow itself, to be used
by desperate politicians to perpetrate injustice, capable of causing a breach
of the peace, as was experienced today between the rival supporters.
It will be recalled that, Senator Lokpobiri had also
employed the services of thugs to disrupt the national assembly primaries of
the PDP held in Sagbama on the 7th of December, 2014, but for the
presence of security agencies, who acted timely to stop them.
Daniel
Iworiso-Markson
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Bayelsa State
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