The Director-General, Bayelsa State
Restoration Campaign Organisation of
Governor Seriake Dickson, Mr. Fred Agbedi,
has said the governorship candidate of the
All Progressives Congress, Chief Timipre
Sylva, is not electable.
Agbedi, who spoke during an interview on
Saturday in Yenagoa, alleged that Sylva had
been rejected by the people of Bayelsa.
Agbedi, who was a one-time state Chairman
of the Peoples Democratic Party and a
current member of the House of
Representatives, said the acceptability of
Dickson was genuine.
This was just as the Silva-Igiri Campaign
Organisation lashed out at the governor over
his recent endorsements for second term in
office by some groups and traditional rulers
in the state.
The Sylva’s team said Dickson was giving
the impression of being popular when he
knew full well that his popularity had
plummeted.
The campaign organisation described the
purported endorsements as vanity and a
charade, saying the endorsements would not
take him anywhere.
But Agbedi, who spoke on the return of
some APC members to the PDP, stated that
they (returnees) did the right thing.
He said, “The action they took is the best.
The APC candidate has been rejected in
Bayelsa in the full glare of every Bayelsa
person. The APC candidate, Timipre Sylva,
has been rejected by the people of Bayelsa.
Reacting to Dickson’s endorsements for a
second term in office by some groups and
traditional rulers in the state, the Director of
Media and Publicity, SICO, Chief Nathan
Egba, said Dickson was deceiving himself.
Egba said the repeated rounds of
endorsements of Dickson were all desperate
attempts to create a sense of acceptability
among the people of the state.
He stated, “Before the presidential election,
there was a spate of endorsements. Every
group, House of Assembly, local government
chairmen and traditional rulers that
endorsed former President Goodluck
Jonathan also endorsed Dickson. And now,
there is another round of endorsements.
“The simple question now is: have those
earlier endorsements expired? And if those
have expired, what is the life span of these
new ones? Are they not going to expire
before the December 5 governorship
election?
“You can see that these endorsements are
an exercise in futility. And as you know,
vanity upon vanity is vanity. He is engaged
in vanity. It is a charade. Dickson is trying
to create an impression of a popularity
which he lacks. Dickson’s popularity has
plummeted and he knows it.”
source:http://punchng.com/2015/11/5182