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Bayelsa 2015: Sylva To Face Dickson Again by sayyid(m): 7:06am On Oct 01, 2015 |
A Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre
Sylva, has emerged the candidate of the All
Progressives Congress for the December 5
governorship election in the state after winning
the party’s primary.
Sylva polled 981 votes to defeat his distant rival,
Mr. Godknows Powell, who scored 39 votes in a
peaceful primary conducted at the state
secretariat of the party in Yenagoa on
Wednesday.
The primary was conducted by a seven-member
electoral committee led by Brig. Gen. Mansur
Dan-Ali (retd.).
With this victory, Sylva will face incumbent
Governor Seriake Dickson, who defeated him in
the 2011 governorship election.
A two-time former member of the House of
Representatives, Warman Ogoriba scored 28
votes.
Another aspirant, Diekivie Ikiogha, scored 22
votes while Ebite Williams got nine votes and
Charity Valdego scored seven votes. Messrs
Preye Aganaba and Febo Austin scored eight
and seven votes respectively, among others.
Out of 1,147 total votes cast at the poll, the
chairman of the panel declared 1,120 votes valid
and declared 27 votes invalid.
The rescheduled primary was peaceful and
largely devoid of rancour and violence which
characterised the initial exercise that was held
on September 22 at the Samson Siasia Sports
Complex.
Delegates conducted themselves in an orderly
manner from 11pm on Tuesday till Wednesday
afternoon when they cast their votes after
accreditation.
There was, however, a brief protest at the venue
of the election when Ikiogha led some aggrieved
aspirants to the area, accusing the panel of
shutting them out of the exercise.
For about an hour, Ikiogha and some other
aggrieved aspirants kept the panel chairman
busy with their complaints.
Ikiogha said the panel came to the state without
meeting with them to intimate them on the
modalities for the election, alleging that the
committee came with a mandate to stop them
from partaking in the exercise.
He said, “This election is worse than the previous
exercise that was cancelled. We are aware that
a new list of delegates was compiled the
previous night for the purpose of the election.
This is not the change we advocated for. We are
appealing for the cancellation of the election.”
But the committee chairman insisted that the
process was transparent and appealed to the
aggrieved aspirants to maintain the peace.
After lodging their complaints, the angry
aspirants walked out of the venue of the
exercise and refused to come back till the end of
the election
Sylva, who was declared winner of the primary
around 4pm by Dan-Alli, thanked the delegates
for electing him for second time.
He also commended the electoral committee
members for a job well, saying that politicians
still had had a lot to learn from the military.
Apparently alluding to Edo State Governor,
Adams Oshiomhole, Sylva lampooned the
governor for alleged inability to conduct the
primary.
He said, “I am very happy today to accept this
victory that you have given to me for the second
time. I will like to tell all of you today that this is
only the beginning of the journey. Today, I have
seen that we politicians have a lot to learn from
the military.
“What a great and serving governor of a great
state of this country was incapable of doing just
a few days ago has been achieved by a retired
general and his team. This tells me that we have
a lot to learn from the military.”
Meanwhile, one of the topmost contenders for
the APC governorship race, Chief Ndutimi Alaibe,
withdrew from the contest. www.punchng.com/news/bayelsa-2015-sylva-to-face-dickson-again/
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Re: Bayelsa 2015: Sylva To Face Dickson Again by madridguy(m): 7:07am On Oct 01, 2015 |
Both look very much alike, same black hat, same glasses, same mouth and above all same intention just to milk the state resources. Recycling same people since year 1960. Which way Nigeria @ 55 ? May God help common man. |
Re: Bayelsa 2015: Sylva To Face Dickson Again by Nobody: 7:12am On Oct 01, 2015 |
battle of former Governors against the Governor |
Re: Bayelsa 2015: Sylva To Face Dickson Again by agitator: 7:25am On Oct 01, 2015 |
Life has been breadth into the dead drug baron by APC. |
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