APC Bent On Rigging Bayelsa Governorship Election, PDP Alleges…Accuses INEC, Security Agencies Of Connivance

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has again alleged that the All Progressives Congress ( APC) was plotting to ensure victory for its governorship candidate, Timpire Sylva in tomorrow’s supplementary election in Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State,

The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) had declared the election held last December inconclusive following the violence that marred the exercise in Southern Ijaw local government, which has a voting strength of over 120,000 registered voters.

In a statement signed by the acting national chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus the party accused INEC and security agencies of alleged connivance to rig the election for Timpire Sylva, as he further claimed that APC has already written the results of the poll.

According to him “Southern Ijaw is the home of former governor of the state, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, a known Ijaw leader. The state is politically divided into Nembe, Ogbia and Southern Ijaw, that is the LGA of Ijaws where the governor, Seriake Dickson is from.

“This is the strongest home base of the PDP. PDP has been winning elections in this core Ijaw LGA because it is the ancestral home of all Ijaws where the former governor and Ijaw leader DSP Alamiseigha and Dickson hail from.

“Intelligence report at our disposal shows that the election is just a mere formality as results have been written with INEC standing as the main culprit.

“There is the use of Police and military personnel to intimidate voters and also scare them away as results are already written as directed.”

He further noted that the desperation to win the Bayelsa governorship election was part of the ruling party’s grand plot to have a stronghold in the South-south. “All ministers and government officials from the zone have been directed to ensure that Bayelsa is delivered to APC at all cost.”

Secondus therefore called on the international community to be aware of this plot by the APC controlled Federal Government to win the Bayelsa state governorship election at all cost, while expressing concern over the dire consequences of hurting the nascent democracy in Nigeria.

The acting chairman of the PDP declared that Nigerians and the global community should hold the APC responsible should the present democracy be frustrated owing to what he called the ignoble mission of the APC to turn the country into a one party state.