Politics
Bayelsa Poll: APC National Chairman, Others Drum Support For Lyon
The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress APC Adams Oshiomhole and other parry chieftains have drummed support for the gubernatorial candidate of the party Chief David Lyon ahead of the Bayelsa state governorship election.
The APC leaders stormed the state on Tuesday to galvanized support for the party’s candidate at a grand rally organised at Oxbow Lake Pavilion in Yenagoa, ahead of the November 16 poll.
Oshiomhole mocked the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, adding that, defeat awaits the party come November 16. He also lamented the failure of the PDP in the state, stressing that Governor Seriake Dickson was already Panicking.
He said “Dickson is panicking. Why won’t he panic when the Lion has arrived? Who will not panic when you cannot point at the schools you have built and the Lion is coming, won’t you panic? When you borrowed as much as he has borrowed to do things that people cannot see and now a Lion is coming to ask questions, why won’t you panic?
“So, I think Governor Dickson deserves our sympathy. But the best he can do is not to complicate his own problem by resorting to violence, it will not help him and he cannot survive it. Let me say here and now, we believe in one man one vote, one woman, one vote, one Dickson one vote, and of course one Lyon one vote. With the votes we already have Dickson belongs to history. He has mismanaged not only the governance of Bayelsa State, he has mismanaged the Bayelsa family as a people.
“Dickson will soon find out that democracy is an equalizer. When you think that you are bigger than anyone, on election day you will discover that the unemployed, the deprived, the abused, the deceived are all equal.’’
In the same vein, the Minister of State for Petroleum and leader of APC in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, who spoke in a veiled reference to the judgement against Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, the running mate to Lyon, accused the PDP of throwing all kinds of obstacles on the way of the opposition in the state.
He also called on the people of the state to support the party’s candidate by voting for him in the gubernatorial poll.
He said “They have gone to every court in the land to try and discourage us. But the APC is stronger and more powerful than they think.
“Bayelsans let me assure you today that David Lyon and Senator Degi Eremienyon pair will not disappoint you, I will never disappoint you, we will never, APC will never disappoint Bayelsa, I am saying this in the presence of my leaders. This election is not about Bayelsa, its about Ijaw nation because the present PDP government is not respecting the leaders of Ijaw nation. APC government will unite Ijaw people.”
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Also the Governor Badaru of Jigawa and his Osun State counterpart Gboyega Oyetola, urged the people of Bayelsa to choose the APC candidate in the forthcoming election.
Among the party chieftains present at the rally were the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege; four state governors led by the Jigawa Governor and Chairman of the APC Governorship campaign council for Bayelsa, Mohammed Badaru Abubarkar; and Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio.
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