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Bayelsa Bye-election: Supreme Court dismisses Dickson’s appeal The Supreme Court ruling is on a litigation which seeks to disqualify Seriake Dickson from participating in the senatorial bye-election in Bayelsa State which the former governor won. ADVERTISEMENT The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck out two appeals filed by Seriake Dickson and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against a suit seeking his disqualification from contesting the concluded Bayelsa West Senatorial District election. Mr Dickson, a former governor of Bayelsa State, had won the bye-election. He had appealed a Court of Ap...

Senator Dickson heads for Supreme Court over pre-election suit verdict File Photo The former governor of Bayelsa State and Senator representing Bayelsa West in the National Assembly, Senator Henry Seriake Dickson has headed to the Supreme Court over a Court of Appeal ruling which set-aside a ruling by the Federal High Court Yenagoa that dismissed a suit seeking to disqualify him from running for the senatorial election. Justice Jane Inyang of the Federal High Court Yenagoa had threw out the suit filed by one Eneoriekumoh Owoupele for lack of jurisdiction declaring that the suit was stature ba...