olumide81:
Does this mean that Sylva is perfect, the write up only highlighted the purpoted weakness of Dickson.

Daily Trust is a northern newspaper. What did you expect from them?

They will always talk in favour of APC.

But unfortunately for them, Bayelsa is not Zamfara nor Jigawa.

Tunibu you and your group should leave ND alone please. Your guys are eaten from the oil in our place yet still want to control the afairs.

All dickson nid to do, is to tell them dat a vote 4 APC is a vote 4 Aboki northerners,, i bet u, PDP win

Who wrote this crap and called it annalysis?

So sorry for Nigerian media. This only happens in zoogeria.

The useless journalist who wrote the above does not know the words "annalyse, annalysis, annalyst.

APC all the way.

olumide81:
Does this mean that Sylva is perfect, the write up only highlighted the purpoted weakness of Dickson.

I served in bayelsa. Nothing Dickson as done. He operate a "stay off" policy where ever two or three re gathered discussing is gov. style, u re at risk. He owes civil servant salaries n pay at will. Teachers in d sch I served collected Dec salary on January. Poor service to d people. Unlike sylva. He is not d Jesus bo he is just a lil b fair. Silva gov. Is nothing compared to Dickson. A 6 years old bayelsan will confirm dat.

If ApC wins 2day's election,I'll bring out one of my balls and break it..

Seriously I think is right time we change our party system to 2 party system instead of the multi party system we are currently operating. Contest has always been between APC and PDP...take a close look at kogi,bayelsa,osun,ekiti in fact all the 36 state and you will understand what I'm talking about

APC will fail woefully today..

HungerBAD:
Many factors will determine who wins today’s Bayelsa State governorship election. The contest is between the incumbent governor, Seriake Dickson who is flying the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) flag and former governor, Timipre Sylva, as candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Analysts say the contest is going to be a fight between the two political gladiators and by extension between President Muhammadu Buhari’s APC-led federal government and former president Goodluck Jonathan who is from Bayelsa State.

The state appears to be Jonathan’s only PDP surviving state and will do everything humanly possible not to concede it to APC. It is believed that a loss of the PDP in today’s election will be a very big slight on Jonathan of which he will use everything at his disposal to ensure PDP clinch the contest.

Thousands of Bayelsans drawn from the three senatorial districts of Bayelsa Central (Yenagoa, Southern Ijaw and Opukuma), Bayelsa West (Ekeremo and Sagbama) as well as Bayelsa East (Ogbia, Nembe and Brass) will decide today, between Sylva and Dickson, who will be their governor. Dickson hails from Sagbama while Sylva is from Nembe.

One of the factors that will determine who wins the election is personality influence and the impact of the two politicians to the grassroots. Pundits say today’s poll will be the first time a real election will be conducted in the state as previous governorship ticket in the state was issued from the government house. They add that the people of Bayelsa will have a say on who will become the governor as every vote will count.

The first challenge Dickson will face is from thousands of Bayelsa civil servants who are owed arrears of salaries. Another group of people that will challenge the governor at the poll are political jobbers and hangers on whose ‘stomach infrastructure’ benefit he stopped. Unlike Sylva who is noted to be ‘open handed’ and created ‘stomach infrastructure’ where so many Bayelsans benefited, Dickson shut his doors against ‘stomach infrastructure’ policy. As soon as he came into power he stopped the policy on the ground that Government House vault is not an ATM machine where every Dick and Harry would come to withdraw money.

The governor according to analysts believes that for one to earn money such a person must work for it given the reason why not much was given out to the people. He was said to have impoverished the people through his harsh policies which is considered alien to Bayelsans ‘come and chop’ policy.

Another factor that will work against him is his alleged highhandedness and despotic tendencies which forced many of his supporters to abandon him. Some of his cabinet members resigned from a few months to the election and pitched their tent with Sylva.

“This election will be an acid test for Sylva and Dickson. It is going to be payback time for Dickson who sees himself as a demi-god. He did not see anything good in anybody apart from himself.

You need to see how he presides over our monthly transparency meetings where he shoots everybody down. You cannot give your opinion in that meeting and where you do you are in for trouble,” a top civil servant who spoke with our reporter in Yenagoa said.

“In that meeting nobody talks. You only attend the meeting and listen to him throughout the meeting and go home at the end. This is what we passed through with the governor. Many of his aides do not like his style of leadership and that is the reason why so many of the cabinet members resigned at the dying minute,” he added, asking not to be named.

The top government official also alleged that the governor converted Government House into his private property where family members were appointed into key political positions. He said all these factors will work against Dickson.

Another factor that will determine who wins the election is the personality of President Buhari and that of ex-president Jonathan. Jonathan is a strong supporter of Dickson who he installed as governor in 2011 against Sylva who was denied the PDP ticket despite the fact he won the party’s primaries.

Jonathan during PDP grand finale rally in Yenagoa told supporters not to be deceived by any politician but vote for Dickson. The ethnic sentiment that beclouded the presidential election may play out in this poll as the Ijaw may like to take their pound of flesh against the north for voting against their son.

Majority of Ijaw believe that a vote for APC is a vote for Buhari and northerners who voted against their son during the presidential election.
APC leaders are not relenting in their effort to take Bayelsa State. Their campaign direction tilted on the premise that the state cannot afford to be in the opposition hence the need to vote for a mainstream party.


The two candidates will have to test their popularity at the hinterland where majority of Ijaw reside. The hinterland has a large chunk of Bayelsa’s 1.7 million population. Despite the difficult terrain of the area and coupled with its volatile nature, the two governorship candidates will stage a fight for the finish in the hinterland.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/bayelsa-guber-how-the-winner-will-emerge/122767.html

Trash journalism. All the writer achieved/intended was to denigrate Dickson. No comparisons of the aspirants were made. They have both governed the state and so should have a basis for performance comparison. The writer didn't do that. He also didn't discuss what each party is bringing to the table. He also probably failed to discuss the very important factor of "tribalism" that is always key in elections especially now that the writer opines the election would be free and fair.

phyllosilicate:
How can Bayelsa with their huge allocation and little civil servants be owing salaries,

E tire me o.

The ethnic sentiment that beclouded the presidential election may play out in this poll as the Ijaw may like to take their pound of flesh against the north for voting against their son.

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Analyst sometimes think like what I don't know, they sit in the comfort of their own and publish pettiness, how's this a fight between buhari and Jonathan, infact it's only Jonathan that has strings attached to the election. What ever happens in bayelsa doesn't concern buhari except from APC. Get that straight, buhari that never attended in person sylva's campaign and you think he cares! But surely, APC cares!

fartkay:



I served in bayelsa. Nothing Dickson as done. He operate a "stay off" policy where ever two or three re gathered discussing is gov. style, u re at risk. He owes civil servant salaries n pay at will. Teachers in d sch I served collected Dec salary on January. Poor service to d people. Unlike sylva. He is not d Jesus bo he is just a lil b fair. Silva gov. Is nothing compared to Dickson. A 6 years old bayelsan will confirm dat.

don't tell me you are a graduate.... save us oh God

Nobody is talking about Moses Siloko Siasia, he might end up shocking both the APC and PDP.

The young dude deserve to win. Dickson has the guts to contest despite owing workers their salaries.

OrlandoOwoh:
The irrelevance of Jonathan in our political space will be shown today as Dickson will lose. Bayelsa State (right from when it's part of Rivers State) has not been governed by a different party from the centre. APC is winning the election.

PDP will give APC a KO punch today

LordMecuzy:
I want APC to loose it will be a very big embarrassment to GEJ if APC wins

Just because of that ! If all Nigerians think like this then there's no future for this country........



Cheeeeers

If it's true that Dickson is owing salary arrears as purported in the write up, then he and GEJ are wasting their time!

How can a small state with so much money not pay salaries? If it's true, I maintain that Dickson must be very bold to even campaign and GEJ must be more bold to campaign for him.

I just hope it's not true. Otherwise, I won't mind to see more tears of shame....

The writeup is trash. More like a campaign during election. It is unethical for this to be on the homepage considering how one-sided it is. Seun should take note.

I support APC but I will support a fair write-up because this article is one sided. Does that means sylva is saint

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Omoakinsuyi:
MAY THE BEST CANDIDATE WIN. I DONT WANT TO HEAR 'INCONCLUSIVE RESULT OOO OR INCONCLUSIVE DEATH

Me too

Teryfik:
my broda i noticed 2 ooo

Even me

I don't think the APC have any chance of winning the Bayelsa poll to think that will happen is to believe Nigeria can still attain vision 2020 20

olumide81:
Does this mean that Sylva is perfect, the write up only highlighted the purpoted weakness of Dickson.

I think this is just a politically biased write up. Like 'saint sylva vs devil dickson'

What is the big deal in that when obasanjo loose to opposition then did he hang himself, jonathan will loose with a landslide loss to APC

managermahmud:
I see two aspirants. But I only see one winner! He is Timipreye Sylva

WHAT A FuuLISH DREAMER.