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Timipre Sylva, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Bayelsa governorship election, says the comments by former President Goodluck Jonathan on the outcome of the poll is “unfortunate”.

On November 13, Douye Diri, governor of Bayelsa and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was declared the winner of the November 11 election after he scored 175,196 votes to defeat his close challenger, Sylva.

Sylva, a former minister of state for petroleum resources, polled 110,108 votes.

Diri was reelected for his second term in office.

In his reaction during a visit to Diri after the election, Jonathan said he would have relocated his mother to Abuja, the nation’s capital, if the governor had not been reelected.

The former president, who hails from Bayelsa, said cultism and kidnapping have reduced from the “suffocating level they used to be” during the administration of Diri.

“We should think about the development of the state starting from the issue of peace and security in the state which within this last period, three years plus, there are significant improvements in terms of cultism and kidnapping and so on and so forth,” Jonathan had said.

“I was saying before this election that if Diri loses this election, I would have relocated my mother to Abuja.”

But reacting to Jonathan’s comments, Sylva, in an Instagram post, said he “sincerely” hoped that the former president was misquoted.

“Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s statement is unfortunate,” he wrote.

“I sincerely hope he was misquoted. Let me just quote our respected Wole Soyinka: “you can take the hippopotamus out of the swamp but you cannot take the swamp out of the hippopotamus.”

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Manigie:
Whatever it is oga, you can never be half the man Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is...... Go sleep

Chekwume16:
Jonathan is belittling himself. As a former president he should be a father to all and stay clear of partisan politics. Bayelsa has remained undeveloped today largely due to the inadequacies of his political career.

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BigBlackPreek:
Lack of respect for Goodluck haaa.... He must really be your nightmare and the fact that you lost the gubanitorial election of which you weren't the rightful owner of the ticket in the first place

Woodshot:
Mama peace pls come and hit Sylvia with a volcano hot lines... Live to remember her famous words below:

Chai! Chai! There is God o… there ’ s God
in everything we are doing, continue !

Na only you waka come?

Vote UMBLERRA and press your finger for
UMBLERRA.

My husband , Dr Goodluck Jonathan and
Sambo is a quiet people

. At least we all have HIV AIDS except that
some of us are negative and some of us are
positive ( On World AIDS day speech)

History ’ll not be completely without
OJUKWU.

The people sitting before you here were
once a Children

I donate my family on behalf of 20million

My husband and Sambo is a good people.

The President was once a child and the
Senators were once a children .

My fellow widows.

A good mother takes care of his children .

The people sitting before you were once
a children .

Yes we are all happy for the effort, , it is
not easy to carry second in an
International competition like this one ,
(addressing press men after Female
Under -19 FIFA World Cup ).

The bombers who born them? Wasn ’ t it not
a woman ? They were once a children now a
adult now they are bombing women and
children making some children a widow .

My heart feels sorry for these children who
have become widows for loosing their parents
for one reason or another .

We should have love for our fellow
Nigerians irrespective of their NATIONALITY .

Thank God the Doctors and Nurses
are responding to treatment .

I would rather kill myself instead of
committing suicide .

Ojukwu is a great man , he died but
his manhood lives on.