The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State on Thursday reacted to the accusation by the All Progressives Congress (APC) linking governor Henry Seriake Dickson with the sponsorship of the new militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), describing it as
laughable.
The party regretted that instead of forging the unity of APC, the party and its governorship candidate in the last election, Timipre Sylva, they have resorted to playing politics with the issue of salary payment. The Bayelsa State chairman of PDP, Moses Cleopas in a statement said, the antecedents of the APC with a dislocated leadership, it was not a surprise that the factional leaders couldn’t bring peace to the party.
He said, “Chief Timipre Sylva should go and ask God for forgiveness. The Bayelsa APC has a history of violence. As factional leader of APC, his group perpetrated sundry extra-judicial killings using the instrument of State power. His defunct administration was a short-hand for death. Bayelsans are still trying to heal the wounds inflicted by Sylva’s killer outfit code-named Operation Famou Tangbei.
We urge them to ask for mercy from God for all the atrocities they have perpetrated against the same people they wanted to govern. “Since Sylva lost out in the governorship elections, even amidst the use of maximum violence, crimes such as sea piracy, vandalization of oil facilities, kidnapping and killing have become rampant.
The PDP-led government in the state has responded appropriately by intensifying its security apparatus such that even at the village level, clan heads and paramount rulers have been required to set up vigilante groups to fight the orgy of violence perpetrated by the mal-contented APC thugs who are working hard to diminish the achievements of government.
The APC cannot lose popular elections in Bayelsa State and use her thugs and criminals to blackmail the State.” Describing both allegations by the APC as spurious and another lie from the pit of hell, Cleopas stressed that it was a fresh move aimed at blackmailing Dickson and pitch him against workers in the state and the Federal Government.
He however stated that the move will fail just like previous attempts to rubbish the governor through unsubstantiated claims and advised the Chief Timipre Sylva led faction of the APC to focus on other things.
Cleopas said Sylva and his party were jaundiced because of the repeated failure on their part to reclaim Bayelsa and bring it back to the days of brigandage.
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