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Posted: October 30, 2011 - 21:27

By SaharaReporters, New York

The high stakes game to remove the current governor of Bayelsa state, Timipre Sylva,  from the line up of People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidates for the upcoming governorship election in the state appears to have taken hold.  A few minutes ago the  Gubernatorial Screening Appeal Committee of the PDP in  Bayelsa State released the names of three candidates approved as gubernatorial aspirants for the upcoming governorship elections in the state. The name of Timipre Sylva was excluded by the committee.

However, the committee cleared Youpele Kalango, Christopher Enai and Henry Seriake Dickson as eligible candidates.

A statement jointly signed by the former deputy governor of Ekiti state,  Mrs Abiodun Olujimi and  Alhaji Abba Anas Adamu stated that  only the three candidates are eligible to contest the governorship elections in the state, leaving out Timipre Sylvia who was reportedly removed for operating foreign accounts and Silverbird TV owner , Ben Bruce, who the panel claimed had dual citizenship.

djustice:

They could do this when it involved the President's state, but when it came to Lagos, they passed known drug dealers like Demola Seriki, and known thieves like Ade Dosunmu and Tokunbo Kamson to contest the ticket

These people are just dumbfucks, I swear.

Can they allow a non-Bayelsan to be the minister representing Bayelsa State on the FEC? They'd better remove Aganga before boys stone him in this Lagos. Tinubu, his godfather, will not be able to protect him o!! He will have his hands full at that time.

Beaf:

If Aganga is the issue in Lagos, I think you guys need to make very strong presentations to Abuja, thats if they haven't got it after the recent fiasco. Lagos needs someone who is agile and streetwise.

@topic
Sylva is now free to join ACN, both sides have been singing love songs to one another.

RICHIE BOI:

this is a welcome development coming from yenegoa. i heard he once threatened to kill goodlucks family if he is excluded. now the drums of war is getting louder and louder. i need to sit back and have ma popcorn and watch how this plays out. cause this is getting interesting.

djustice:

Aganga is a problem. He's not a Lagosian, and he's been hobnobbing with the enemy - Bola Tinubu and Oba Akiolu before and after his confirmation. His not being from Lagos has created serious loyalty problems for PDP in Lagos State, How can PDP claim to be trying to help Lagos when they can just blatantly disobey constitutional provisions requiring each minister to be an indigene of the state he represents on the FEC: S147(3), and then appoint an Aganga who not only was not born in Lagos, did not grow up in Lagos and did not even school or work in Lagos for ONE DAY??

It is fraud, and indigenous Lagosians hate the President for it. Trust me, these things run deep amongst Yorubas. We may be quiet, but we NEVER forget.

djustice:

They could do this when it involved the President's state, but when it came to Lagos, they passed known drug dealers like Demola Seriki, and known thieves like Ade Dosunmu and Tokunbo Kamson to contest the ticket

These people are just dumbfucks, I swear.

Can they allow a non-Bayelsan to be the minister representing Bayelsa State on the FEC? They'd better remove Aganga before boys stone him in this Lagos. Tinubu, his godfather, will not be able to protect him o!! He will have his hands full at that time.

Omisore, Oyinlola vs Professor Adeyeye

We have read with horror a report that the Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, has been screened out by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2012 Bayelsa State Gubernatorial Election. The report claims the Gubernatorial Screening Appeal Committee of the PDP headed by former Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Abiodun Olujimi, considered Sylva ineligible
to fly the party’s flag “for operating foreign accounts”.

Whatever the quality of the sources, this report is completely false. It is low quality fiction. It is a cheap lie sponsored by those who are afraid to meet Governor Sylva in the political field of contest, and their paid and unpaid agents, working collectively or severally.

But then, we are not surprised as it follows a familiar pattern of a structured campaign of serial untruths about Governor Sylva, a fact we alerted the world about last weekend.

For the avoidance of doubt, there is no basis whatsoever for the PDP to exclude Governor Sylva from the 2012 Bayelsa governorship race. He is the man to beat. Ownership and operation of a foreign account by a serving public officer is a criminal offence. No competent court of law has
indicted Governor Sylva for operating a foreign account. He has no such charge pending anywhere in the world. God fobid!

The PDP Gubernatorial Screening Committee for Bayelsa last Friday issued Governor Sylva a clearance certificate to participate in the party primaries slated for 19 November. That clearance certificate remains valid. It is true that the governor was at the National Headquarters of
the PDP Sunday afternoon at the instance of the Gubernatorial Screening Appeal Committee. But as Sylva himself confidently told reporters after meeting with the committee, “the deliberations were fruitful.

In the face of continuous lies against Governor Sylva, we appeal to our numerous supporters to continue to remain clam, peaceful and law-abiding. Governor Sylva remains confident that the will of the Bayelsa people, guided by God, shall prevail.

God bless Bayelsa!

DOIFIE OLA
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor
Bayelsa State
31 October 2011

arsenefc:

^^^
How is Omisore a pig?

koruji:

You should recuse yourself from commenting on Nigeria's politics if you don't know how Omisore is a pig.

djustice:

They could do this when it involved the President's state, but when it came to Lagos, they passed known drug dealers like Demola Seriki, and known thieves like Ade Dosunmu and Tokunbo Kamson to contest the ticket

These people are just dumbfucks, I swear.

Can they allow a non-Bayelsan to be the minister representing Bayelsa State on the FEC? They'd better remove Aganga before boys stone him in this Lagos. Tinubu, his godfather, will not be able to protect him o!! He will have his hands full at that time.

arsenefc:

Really?

Dont you want to teach me something? I am here to learn, not to comment voraciously to the point of using big words just to sound smart without referring to the dictionary as to the proper usage of those words.

badesco:

@djustice. It is better you confirmed your facts before publishing it to the world. Do you have any proof to substantiate your allegations against Demola Seriki, Ade Dosunmu and Tokunbo Kamson? . If you have any issues with any one of them or better still with all of them, why not make a formal report at Police Station, rather than  casting aspersion at them here. Pls note i am not a politician nor belongs to PDP. Always get your facts right. Mr so call djustice

djustice:

Mr. bedesco abi what is that your yeye name sef, nor be by force to type sontin just because I thrashed your people o. Facts are facts. At the appropriate time, they will open Demola Seriki's bleached yansh for all the atrocities he committed, especially at the Ministry of Agriculture. Abi you think dossier no dey??

As for Ade Dosunmu, dat one na both sides of the coin he get kwanta. As GM of LBIC, he resigned in questionable circumstances, Bola Tinubu has his dossier, hence his lukewarm campaign during the governorship elections. Some have even said he was paid to throw the elections by campaigning woefully. The figure N3.5b keeps recurring in those conversations. Make I nor even start with his problems at NIMASA. When Fashola challenged him on the N150k per day generator at NIMASA, you could see him praying for the ground to open and swallow him whole.

Tokunbo Kamson made his money by over-inflating road and drainage contracts during Marwa's time, combined with his mismanagement of World Bank funds meant for Lagos State Water Corporation of which he was GM when Tinubu asked him to resign. His dossier is also with Tinubu. He was encouraged to run by Tinubu, just as the same man cajoled both Seriki and Dosunmu to run. When Bola Tinubu is finally brought down, a lot of people's political careers and reputations will be in tatters. Mark my words.

If you have facts that are different from the above, feel free to share.

dayokanu:

So these are the caliber of people the PDP thinks is best for the SouthWest?

Added to Obanikoro, Alao-Akala, Ayo Fayose, Iyiola Omisore, Adetunji Olurin

God punish PDP. No wonder the people of the SouthWest rejected them