This is not the best of times for the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State ahead of the November 11 governorship election.
Although about 10 political parties are contesting the poll, the election is panning out as two-horse race between Governor Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former Minister of State for Petroleum and former Governor of the state, Chief Timpreye Sylva, who is running on the platform of the APC.
The gulf between Lokpobiri and Sylva widened, following Sylva’s refusal to back his ministerial bid after APC won the presidential poll.Lyon, who was sacked as Bayelsa state governor-elect by the Supreme Court in February 2020, had thought that he would be given the right of first refusal in the consideration of the |APC governorship candidate but that was not done.
He stressed: “This alliance between the governor and APC top chieftains implies that the two may have to defect to the PDP after Lokpobiri has served his term as minister in the Tinubu administration ahead of the battle to succeed Diri in 2026.” However, Diri has not limited his ‘succession promises’ to Lokpobiri and Lyon and APC family alone; he has extended it to other big wigs in his party.
Daumiebi, who was the APC Senatorial Candidate for Bayelsa Central Senatorial District in the 2019, in a press statement, weekend, said intelligence report before him indicated that some members of the APC in Abuja were planning to induce his Southern Ijaw Ward 12 executives to announce his suspension from the APC.
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