Ahead of the December 5 governorship election
in Bayelsa state, campaigns and verbal attacks
have continued to heat up as Governor Seriake
Dickson’s camp of the Peoples Democratic Party
fired a shot at Timipre Sylva, the All
Progressives Congress flag bearer in the forthcoming poll. Chief Timipre Sylva and Governor Seriake Dickson The director general of the Bayelsa State
Restoration Campaign Organisation of Governor
Seriake Dickson, Fred Agbedi during an interview in
Yenagoa over the weekend said that the
governorship candidate of the APC is not electable
and has been rejected by the people of Bayelsa, The Punch reports. The statement was a clear response to the Sylva
campaign team for lashing out at the governor over
his recent endorsements for second term in office
by some groups and traditional rulers in the state. Describing the purported endorsements as vanity
and a charade, the Sylva campaign team said that
Dickson was giving the impression of being
popular when he knew full well that his popularity
had dropped sharply stressing that such
endorsements would not would not in any way make the election favourable to him.However, Agbedi who is also a member of the
House of Representatives does not agree with the
former governor’s campaign team. He said that the
acceptability of Dickson was genuine. On the issue of former APC members who returned
to the PDP Agbedi sat that they did the right thing
by decamping to the ruling party in the state. The director general said that the action the
returnees took was the best stressing that 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,” he added. Subsequently in his reaction to Dickson’s
endorsements for a second term in office by some
groups and traditional rulers in the state, Chief
Nathan Egba, the director of media and publicity,
SICO, noted that the state governor was only just
deceiving himself. Egba said: “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.” He said that the repeated rounds of endorsements
of were a clear indication of desperate attempts to
create a sense of acceptability among the people of
the state. Meanwhile, there have an on-going plot by the PDP

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