Following the Appeal court verdict reinstating the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November election in Bayelsa, Timipre Sylva has said that the judiciary has vindicated itself.
Recall that the High Court in Abuja, had on October 9, declared that Sylva was not eligible to participate in the gubernatorial contest having already spent five years in office as governor of the state.
Sylva stated this on Tuesday in Abuja after meeting with the Deputy National Chairman, North, Bukar Dalori and the National Secretary of the party, Senator Ajibola Bashir.
Reacting to the judgment, recalled that when he was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that he challenged the former Governor of the state, Seriake Dickson, but he lost the case because the court ruled that he has no locus standi.
The immediate past Minister of Petroleum insisted that it was very clear to the blind and audible to the deaf that the APC is going to win.
Sylva said that was the reason the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) decided to go to court to stop him to make sure he’s not on the ballot.
He noted that despite the initial judgement of the High Court that they had no setbacks because they were still reaching out to the people.
Sylva stated: “Today, when the court now said that the guy who did not participate at all in the process had no locus, and I was a little bit confused, but the judiciary has vindicated itself.”
He said though the person that took him to court claim to be a member of APC, but maintained that it was orchestrated by the PDP