Federal Might Won’t Deliver Sylva From Failure At Bayelsa Guber Poll – APC Chieftain

Timipre-Sylva

A founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Chief Richard Kpodo, on Monday warned that federal might would not save the party’s candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, in the December 5 governorship election.

Speaking at a news conference in Yenagoa, the state capital, Kpodo, a former Chairman of the defunct new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), said that Sylva allegedly subverted the rules of the APC to become the party’s flagbearer.

He, therefore, pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to keep to his promise of changing the old ways of doing things and enforce the desired change Nigerians yearn for in the interest of justice and fair play.

According to Kpodo, Sylva’s emergence would spell doom for the APC, stressing that the primary that produced the ex-governor was a charade.

He said: “Though President Muhammadu Buhari, in his Independence Day nationwide broadcast declared that Nigerians should depart from their old ways and characters, the fraud perpetrated during the charade called primary election in Bayelsa APC was the old electoral way of ‘defrauding’ the people.

“If the APC, Timipre Sylva and his cohorts in Abuja believe that the plot to deploy the federal might against the people of the state will deliver Sylva from failure, they are wrong.

“The people of the state watched with renewed interest as Sylva’s fraud was executed. And they are ready to show the APC that such fraudulent change is not needed in Bayelsa. Instead, they may continue supporting the current administration in place.

“For the Bayelsa APC to get it right, the time for the change is now. And it must start with the cancellation of the fraudulent primary conducted by Sylva and his boys”.

Kpodo alleged that Sylva and his gang of politicians, within and outside the state, scuttled the decision of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) on the conduct of a free, fair and credible primary.

He also claimed that Sylva hijacked the process from Abuja by going as far as selecting members of the Primary Election Committee led by Brig.-Gen Monsur Dan-Ali (retd.).

He said that Sylva came into the state at about 11:00pm in company with the Electoral Committee members and hid them in an undisclosed area to do his bidding at a venue not known to members, particularly aspirants.

Kpodo, however, applauded the three governorship aspirants who stood up and protested against the primary, hailing their decision to seek legal redress.