APC Members in Bayelsa Petition Buni against Sylva

Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State have petitioned the National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Party, Governor Mai Mala Buni, against the Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr. Timipre Sylva, imposition of candidates on the party without due consultations with stakeholders.

The APC’s leaders who belong to the APC Constitutional and Due Process Vanguard in Bayelsa State include Hon. Godwin Sidi, Hon. Dressman, Mr. Frank Oputu, (Bayelsa Central), Hon. Peter Ozobo, Mr. Ebide Brown and Mr. Moses Hitler from Bayelsa West.

The aggrieved members called on Buni to stop Sylva and his acolytes from imposing candidates on the party in order to avert what they described an impending disaster in the October 31 by-elections.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has scheduled the by-elections for October 3 to fill the vacant Bayelsa West and Bayelsa Central Senatorial seats. The vacant seats were vacated by the Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri and his deputy, Senator

Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo after they were inaugurated on February 14t this year.

The aggrieved party leaders alleged that Sylva, who is neither from Bayelsa Central nor West, was working to impose candidates who recently defected to the APC from the PDP and have not even spent the requisite number of days that would have qualified them for nomination for elective positions.