Bayelsa Election: No militant can save you, governor tells Sylva

Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson and Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) candidate yesterday told his main rival and All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, that no militant will save him from defeat in tomorrow’s supplementary elections.

Dickson urged Sylva to “accept defeat or be ready to be humiliated by the people as no militant can deliver him and the APC”.

The governor also urged youths’ presidents and Community Development Committee (CDC) chairmen to prove that they were ready for free, fair, credible and violence-free polls.

In an interactive session with youth leaders and CDC chairmen at the Government House in Yenagoa, Dickson said APC chieftains were jittery because “they do not have grassroots support and this is the right time to prove to the entire world that the APC has no support base”.

The governor said the people of Southern Ijaw were cheated during the December 5, 2015 polls because they were not allowed to vote.

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