Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson yesterday, said the era of deceiving the Judiciary to get judgments and electoral victory through the back door was over in Nigeria.
He premised this optimism on the Supreme Court ruling on the governorship election in Rivers, Abia and Akwa-Ibom States last week.
Dickson had, while attributing his victory over the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Timipre Sylva in the recently concluded election in Bayelsa to divine intervention, alleged that his opponent was relying on the Judiciary to make him governor.
A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Iworiso-Markson said the governor spoke on a live radio and television programme in Yenagoa, where he was emphatic that it would be foolhardy for anyone to think that he could upturn the decision of the people by manipulating the judicial process.
Expressing his readiness to face the APC at the election petition tribunal, Dickson argued that, there were enough evidences to counter all the issues raised in their petition, “even though I am yet to be served.”
Back at home, academic and non-academic activities were paralysed at the Federal University, Otuoke when scores of academic and non-academic staff staged a protest to demand for the establishment of unions in the higher institution.
Sources said academic and non-academic staff have been fine tuning plans in recent weeks to protest the non-inauguration of their unions as applicable in other universities.
The protesting workers were said to have barricaded all entry points to the university and moved to the office of the vice chancellor.
A senior staff of the university, who pleaded anonymity, said the workers had no option but to express their frustrations on the absence of unions in the university.
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