Less than twenty-four hours after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to restore Henry Dickson as the PDP candidate in the Bayelsa state governorship election scheduled for February this year, the party’s National Chairman has inaugurated a national campaign committee headed by the Vice President Namadi Sambo to lead the governorship campaign of the party.
Alhaji Kawu Baraje also told the party members that INEC has now listed Mr Dickson as the candidate of the party in compliance with the court order.
INEC had omitted the name of the candidate from the list of governorship candidates for the election saying the issue was still been contended in court.
But Justice Gladys Olotu granted a motion of interim injunction filed by lawyers to the PDP’s candidate demanding that Mr Dickson’s name be restored on the list as the rightful candidate of the pdp in the election.
The issue of who flies the PDP’s flag in the election has been in serious contention.
While Mr Dickson emerged the candidate through a primaries organised by the party, the state governor, Timipre Silva has gone to court insisting he is the rightful candidate even though the PDP has always maintained that Mr Dickson remains its candidate for the election.
