Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has attributed his two terms in office to divine intervention.
Mr Dickson is the first governor to successfully complete a second term in office in Bayelsa.
He won the Bayelsa governorship in 2011 and was re-elected in 2015 to break the jinx of single tenure for governors in the state since 1999.
The governor’s chief press secretary, Fidelis Soriwei, in a statement on Friday, quoted Dickson as having made the assertion when the set of 1992 Rivers State University of Science and Technology Law students paid him a solidarity visit.
The governor added that if not for God’s intervention he would not have been able to break the jinx to be the first governor to do a straight two-term in office.
“I thank you for your abiding solidarity. This is not the first time individually and collectively you have been here to encourage and to support me in all these period that I have remained here as governor,” he said.
On the governorship election which his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), lost to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dickson accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of compromising the integrity and legitimacy of the election.
He alleged that INEC worked with security agencies to manipulate results in favour of APC.
Dickson, however, expressed confidence in the judiciary to examine the merits of the two cases pending in the Court of Appeal.
Kenneth Eke and Chuks Ughuro, who spoke on behalf of other classmates, described Dickson as a phenomenal and visionary leader whose tenure impacted lives positively and transformed the state.
