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By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, has described Gov Douye Diri’s remarks against him at Ogbia as the \u201ctantrums of a drowning man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to a statement signed by Julius Bokoru, special assistant on Media and Publicity to Chief Timpere Sylva and made available to our correspondent, Governor Diri \u201cwho turned what should have been a PDP constituency campaign at Ogbia LGA to a Sylva-bashing contest, as all the PDP scant rallies have degenerated to, alleged that Sylva was planning to cause mayhem at Ogbia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the media aide, available statistics do not support the allegation, adding that \u201cthe APC won at Ogbia convincingly at the 2019 governorship elections, the immediate past chairman of Ogbia LGA, Hon. Ebinyo Turner just defected to APC from the PDP with tens of thousands of his supporters, there is a serving APC House of Assembly member from Ogbia at the Bayelsa State parliament. It is also worthy to note that the APC won the presidential elections for President Tinubu at Ogbia LGA and not forgetting the fact Ogbia is of the Bayelsa East Senatorial Zone, the very senatorial zone of Chief Sylva. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNothing suggests to a PDP potential at Ogbia and this is a known fact to all. Consequently, Sylva will benefit nothing in causing mayhem at his stronghold,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bokoru said \u201cBy Diri’s antecedents and his apparent fear of losing Ogbia, which is inevitable on account of his ineptitude and indifference towards the council’s development, it is easy to assume he is the one planning to cause violence at Ogbia. It is fresh on our memory how he dethroned an Ogbia monarch and his recent antagonism against the people of Nembe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSecurity agencies and the general public should take note of Diri’s statements and inclinations towards violence. An election should be a battle of innovative ideas, not a test of firepower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSylva assures that the APC will emerge triumphant come November 11 and that Bayelsans will be liberated from the shackles of lawlessness and impunity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Amos Odhe, Yenagoa Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, has described Gov Douye Diri’s remarks against him at Ogbia as the \u201ctantrums of a drowning man.\u201d According to a statement signed by Julius Bokoru, special assistant on Media and Publicity to Chief Timpere Sylva and made available<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepstrataenergy.com\/phmundial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}