Bayelsa Guber: PDP exposes plot by APC to rig election

July 21, 2015 – Ahead of the gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa State slated for December 5, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, says it has uncovered a dangerous plot by the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) to rig the governorship election.

In a statement issued by PDP in Yenagoa, signed by State Secretary of PDP, Hon. Godspower Keku, the party said APC leaders in the state led by former governor Timipre Sylva are currently wooing supporters to defect to his party by saying that President Buhari has given his word that he will deploy federal might in the forthcoming governorship elections in the state, as part of the strategy to wrest power from PDP.

The former governor was reported to have summoned a closed door meeting involving some members of the security agencies and officials INEC in the state, in what close sources described as a way of showing off to his hordes of supporters milling around that he actually has the backing of the Presidency.

The PDP scribe, in his statement further reiterated, that the defectors are traitors and enemy to the Ijaw Nation, noting that we are all living witnesses to what happened in this state when these defectors and their leader, Timipre Sylva, plundered the resources of the state for five years.

“Clearly these defectors are opportunists, big time traitors, who left the PDP for the APC on account of their greed and nothing more. Essentially, they do not have anything good to add to the welfare of the people and good governance of the state except their insatiable appetite for corruption and ill-gotten wealth. But Bayelsans are no fools and they have spoken through recent elections that enough is now enough.

“All of us who well meaning Bayelsans are all in agreement that our state must also develop like other well run states in the federation. This is the cornerstone of Governor Dickson’s leadership philosophy but regrettably some of the political elite are not happy because of the rent factor which benefits only a few of them at the expense of the people”, he said.