Sylva Assures Bayelsa Elders Of Peaceful Election

In a statement, the Director of Publicity of the Restoration Campaign Organisation, Jonathan Obuebite, said it was deceitful and misleading for Sylva to have claimed that the Council of Elders endorsed him whereas he only had an audience with the council where he was implored to ensure he ran a violence-free campaign and abide by the outcome of the poll.

The survey which seek to find out the level of awareness and preparedness of the people of Bayelsa State, particularly the eligible voters on the December 5 Governorship election had indicated that out of the eight local government Areas, Chief Timipre Sylva, will win in six local government areas.

Both Binabo, a leader of the All Progressives Congress, and Dickson, are from the same Sagbama local government area of the state.

Binabo and Dickson are from the same Sagbama zone; he handed over to Dickson in 2012.

Urging the people of Bayelsa State to disregard the survey, the campaign organization recalled that the same group predicted that Sylva, who was Bayelsa-East senatorial candidate of the APC in the 2015 general elections, would win, but he ended up losing to Senator Ben Murray-Bruce of the PDP.

Dickson said that an Okunbiri man who has joined the APC is his greatest enemy in Sagbama. I am an APC stalwart and since l joined APC, Dickson has been after me. The teeming crowd of genuine supporters we see following Governor Seriake Dickson everywhere in his grassroots campaigns says it all unlike the scanty rented crowd of the APC. I conducted a peaceful election and spent the resources to make him a governor.

They added that the former governor provided enabling environment and adequate security across the state during his first tenure. “And I think that is the primary reason he has continuously declared me his arch enemy”.

Dickson is the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in the forthcoming election.