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Bayelsa Guber Poll And Sponsored Survey- Sunnews Paper by manchester1: 8:34am On Dec 01, 2015 |
I am a gender activist but keenly interested in the built
up to the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa
State, the glory of all lands and Jerusalem of the Ijaw
nation. One thing that captured my attention is that
the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) desperate. However, hard as they tried, the Ijaw
nation as an entity, particularly Bayelsans has
rejected APC and chose to remain with the Peoples’
Democratic Party (PDP), for obvious reasons.
Observers believe APC’s greatest undoing was that it
fielded a former governor of the state, Chief Timipre
Sylva, as candidate in the December 5 polls. This
forced former prominent party leaders, like Senator
John Brambaifa and Chief Alex Ekiotene and over 20,
000 APC officials and supporters to decamp to PDP.
Similarly, many aspirants in the APC primary election
that produced Sylva distanced themselves from the
party. To further boost the re-election bid of the
Countryman Governor, Hon Henry Seriake Dickson,
over 6,000 PVC-carrying friends of President
Muhammadu Buhari under the auspices of Buhari
Friends Organisation Network in Bayelsa endorsed
Dickson’s re-election, citing his democratic credentials
as reason. The friends of Buhari’s support came at a
period when Bayelsa Elders Council, non-indigenes in
the state, the clergy, organised labour, NGOs, youth,
women and faith-based organisations and majority of
the rural communities in the state had vowed to retain
the governor in Creek Haven!
The gale of endorsements for the governor and
emergence of Sylva caused the APC meltdown in
Bayelsa, which expectedly frustrated Sylva and his
camp. So after trying to no avail to sway us, the
Bayelsa voters, Sylva seems to have finally settled for
a fathom poll survey, which gave him a head start
over others so that when he is rigged into office, the
world would not pick holes in the exercise.
It is against this background that observers are quick
to say that the latest survey conducted by the Election
Frontline administered by one Mac Pepple Joshua is a
prelude to manipulate the December 5 governorship
election and capture the state by hook or crook! The
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
(MEND) at a recent press conference in Port Harcourt
read the body language of APC correctly when it
warned the presidency in strong terms not to
manipulate the polls. While vowing to resist rigging,
MEND promised to send 500 members to monitor the
election in the creeks.
In its reaction to the fake election survey, the
Restoration Campaign Organisation (RCO), the
umbrella campaign organisation for the re-election of
Governor Dickson, said the opinion was meant to
prepare the ground for APC to rig the election. Hon
Jonathan Obuebite, RCO Director of Media and
Publicity in a press statement wrote: ‘‘…RCO received
with shock, the so called poll survey conducted on the
would-be voting pattern of voters in the December 5
governorship election in Bayelsa State by a body
known as Election Frontline, a team of APC card
carrying members. The opinion poll was obviously
sponsored by the APC leadership. The so-called
Election Frontline simply sat in Lagos and wrote its
report, which unfortunately alluded that the APC
governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva, would win the
election. Ordinarily, this unfounded opinion poll should
not merit a reaction from either the PDP or the
Restoration Campaign Organisation of Governor
Seriake Dickson, but we have decided to succinctly
react to the falsehood, propaganda and blackmail of
the APC pollsters to set the record straight before
Nigerians and the international community.”
Obuebite averred that the poll survey was not credible
and argued that this same survey experts had
predicted that the same “Sylva who was Bayelsa East
senatorial candidate of the APC in the 2015 general
election would win but he lost woefully to Senator Ben
Murray Bruce of the PDP…’’
The RCO spokesman boasted that majority of
Bayelsans have vowed to re-elect Governor Dickson
to consolidate on peace prosperity, development and
security of Bayelsa State. ‘‘As we speak, the evidence
on ground shows clearly that Bayelsans want to retain
Governor Dickson in Creek Haven for you don’t
change a winning team in the first half of the game.
Governor Dickson is about finishing the first half of
four years and the people on whose thighs sovereignty
lies have asked him to complete the second half of
four years because he has run a good race by
developing the state and restoring Bayelsa, its lost
glory…’’ he added.
He therefore urged Bayelsans, Nigerians and the
international community to ignore the so-called poll
survey, which he alleged was sponsored by APC.
While stressing that this opinion poll cannot sway the
voters for the APC, Obuebite asserted that Bayelsans
have vowed to resist rigging.
Obuebite also stressed, “APC has no foothold on
Bayelsa and Ijaw land. Our people cannot afford to
gamble with their destiny. Re-electing the APC
candidate, Sylva will return Bayelsa State to Egypt.
Under Governor Dickson, we can see the promise
land, that is why we must re-elect him to consolidate
on his track record of selfless service to Bayelsans
and humanity in general…!’’
My take is that propaganda doesn’t win election, only
permanent voter card does, Bayelsans will speak with
their PVCs on the D-day, for the taste of the pudding
is in the eating. |
Re: Bayelsa Guber Poll And Sponsored Survey- Sunnews Paper by manchester1: 8:37am On Dec 01, 2015 |
the end shall tell |
Re: Bayelsa Guber Poll And Sponsored Survey- Sunnews Paper by comos: 9:22am On Dec 01, 2015 |
the man on the ground has spoken. |
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