The Youth Wing of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, on Thursday, dismissed as “laughable” and “show of fear” the claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the APC was plotting to deploy federal forces to rig the forth-coming governorship election for the standard-bearer of the party, Chief Timipre Sylva.
According to the APC youths, though the Federal Government had the constitutional duty to deploy federal forces, including the men of the Nigeria Police and the Department of the State Security Service for a free and fair poll in the state, the claims that the forces would be deployed for the use of APC was laughable and a deliberate show of cowardice by the PDP.
In a statement issued in Yenagoa by the National Co-ordinator of the Chief Timipre Sylva Support Group, Comrade Melford Esinte, said the APC Sylva were prepared with a well-structured campaign organisation and needed voters support based on past achievements and sound programme campaign manifestoes.
Esinte said the PDP should, instead of making false claims on the alleged deployment of federal might, focus on proper campaign and presentation of achievements to the people of the state, adding that “Sylva’s track records of infrastructural and manpower development will speak eloquently and massively for him at the polls.
“Chief Timipre Sylva is not banking on any federal might to win the forthcoming governorship election as widely insinuated and timidly expressed by the PDP and its candidate. Sylva has been able to put formidable political structure on ground upon which he will gladly and comfortably sail. The development stride of Chief Timipre Sylva first term in office which the former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan and the Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson refused to maliciously acknowledge, but are glaring to the people of the state.”
Esinte, however, called on the PDP and the administration of Governor Seriake Dickson to redirect its energy towards rendering account of stewardship to the people of the State. “It should make public the charade of compulsory monthly savings initiated by the administration supposedly in billions of naira and the unfulfilled promise of turning Bayelsa into a massive construction site. What we have seen, so far, is growing sites of abandoned projects, refuse dumps, pot-holes on major roads and huge contractual debts.
“Despite the desperate efforts of the Seriake Dickson administration to blackmail and launch propaganda against the person and aspiration of Chief Timipre Sylva, it has been bad market all the way for the PDP and the Dickson administration. The APC is not divided. The APC is more united, well positioned and focused than ever, and ready to go into the forthcoming election.”
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