Bayelsa Guber: PDP’s Cry Over SPO’s is Symptomatic of a dying and Sinking Party – Seiyefa Brisibe

We condemn the recent offer of the sum of N1 billion to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Dickson.

This offer is for nothing else than a criminal effort towards colluding with INEC to jeopardize the November 16 governorship polls and upend the wishes of the electorate

A statement issued today by the alternate Director General of the APC Campaign Council, Prof. Seiyefa Brisibe Sai’d It is important to notify the national and state officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that their integrity is at stake and that any perpetuation of an illegality in connivance with the PDP, which is just a paper tiger, and a rejected party in the State for its twenty years of misrule, will destroy the image of the electoral body.

We therefore, urge INEC to withstand the temptation of being used by the PDP to truncate the electoral process, especially with regard to the November 16 governorship polls in the State.

It is shameful that the PDP which claims to be on ground with all the structures required to win the elections, has chosen an illegal path by releasing such a whooping sum to compromise electoral standards.

We are worried that at a time when pensioners’ gratuity liability in the State stands at over N30 billion and there is a very huge infrastructure gap, Mr, Dickson could criminally offer that sum to compromise an election in which he is not even a candidate.

A sensible and sensitive leader would rather have spent that sum to clear some backlog of payments to workers and pensioners to drastically reduce the prevailing poverty in the State.

It is quite unfortunate that the Bayelsa state chapter of the People Democratic Party (PDP) is accusing the All Progressive Congress (APC) of influencing the appointment of adhoc staff by the Independent National Electoral commission for the November 16th Governorship polls in the State.

That accusation without doubt is symptomatic of a sinking Party who in error believes that the electoral umpire cannot on its own recruit its staff for purposes of election but must depend on others to get things done.

The PDP has always perpetuated such illegalities to impend the electoral wishes of the people and whenever they fail in their bid to compromise the process by colluding with INEC they cry foul, which is what they have resorted to again.

They have failed to know that it is always within the purview of the electoral Umpire to select their adhoc staff for the conduct of election based on set criteria’s which includes competence and capacity to handle critical assignments such as election and that INEC performs this assignment with the view to conducting credible polls.

The APC as a Party is known for it’s adherence to credible free and fair election. Does not and refuses to wear the Toga of compromising globally acceptable standard of elections by colluding with the Umpire to perpetrate such.

On the contrary, it is a criminal exercise for the PDP to accuse the APC of a crime that freely run through it’s (PDP) blood stream.

The PDP in 2015, working through the then resident electoral commissioner (REC) in the state, Truncated APC’s victory through an Illegal cancellation of APC’s valid votes in a Local Government, which paved the way for PDP’s victory.

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