Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State will know his fate today as the state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja is set to deliver its judgment on the state governorship election.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Vijah Opuama of the Liberation Movement, Ibiene Stephen of United Peoples Congress and Owei Woniwei of Alliance for Democracy are challenging the election of Diri as the duly elected governor of the state.
The three petitioners are also challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and three others for declaring the PDP candidate winner of the election.
This comes a month after the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal filed by a former aspirant of the Bayelsa governorship election under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Timi Alaibe, challenging the candidacy of Senator Diri in the November 2019 election.
Alaibe who had earlier lost a similar suit at the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal is claiming that he is the authentic candidate of the PDP.
But the court dismissed the case on Tuesday, on the ground that it was a pre-election matter.
