LETTER OF PROTEST AGAINST THE NOMINATION OF PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) YENAGOA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA CHAIRMANSHIP CANDIDATE IN THE 2019 BAYELSA STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL ELECTION.
His Excellency,
Hon. Seriake DicksonÂ
Executive Governor,
Bayelsa State.
Through:
Hon. Moses CleopasÂ
Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Bayelsa State.
1. We write to express our concern as stakeholders and grassroot leaders in the restoration project in Gbarain Kingdom.
It is our firm believe that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remains a strong hold in the state and since inception of this democratic dispensation in 1999. The people of Gbarain have been firm supporters and have demonstrated this through their ballots in all elections, the 2015 General election and the recently conducted 2019 general election is a clear testimony.
2. It is factual that the people of Gbarain since the inception of the Restoration Government led by His Excellency, Governor Seriake Dickson in 2011 has played their role and contribute both economically and politically to the growth of the state hence we have been a force to reckon with as key players.
3. We are shocked to receive the news of the purported nomination of one Mr. Uroupaye Nimizuo by the Bayelsa Sate Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Barr. Kemela Okara unbehalf of Yenagoa Local Government Area Stakeholders.
4. We write to clarify and put on notice that the recent nomination was done single handedly by the SSG without due consultation with party leaders and stakeholders across the Yenagoa Local Government Area. Let it be on record that the recent 2015/2019 election this said SSG almost lost his ward 11 but for the intervention of stakeholders from other wards in constituency II.
5. Let it be on record that the said ward 11 which produces the SSG also has:
➢ The Hon. Commissioner for Youth Development Comr. Udengs Eradiri
➢ The Special Adviser to the Governor on Agriculture Hon. Godspower Ake
➢ Governor’s Representative for YELGA: Hon. Patterson Ikpe
➢ The Director-General Bayelsa Microfinance and Enterprise Development Agency: BYMEDIA) Engr. Ebiekure Eradiri
➢ And Many other countless political Appointees.
6. In the electoral composition in the said constituency II, Gbarain has three wards (7,8,9) While Ekpetiama has Two (10,11) It is a slap on the people of Gbarain if this issue is swept under the carpet in this political dispensation.
Your Excellency, at this point we will like to take your back memory lane on the history of the elected Yenagoa Yenagoa Local Government Area Chairmen since this democratic dispensation in 1999.
S/N
NAME
PLACE OF ORIGIN
CONSTITUENCY
1. HON. WALTER OKPOI
IKIBIRI/EKPETIAMA
2. HON. TONY SAMUEL
OVOM /EPIE/ATISSA
3. HON. MICHAEL OGBOLOSINGHA
KALABA/OKORDIA/ZARAMA BISENI
4. HON. CHUBBY BEN-WALSON
AGUDAMA/EPIE ATISSA
In view of the above, now that the position is back to constituency two we feel it is just, fair Politically wise and rightly the turn of GBARAIN CANDIDATE to emerge as the Local Government Chairman in line with the present political reality.
7. Your Excellency, we passionately appeal as stakeholders that going by the BYSIEC electoral time-line made there is provision for substitution of candidate(s) after the primaries, therefore we appeal that the purported winner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Yenagoa Local Government Primaries Mr. Uroupaye Nimizuo be substituted by any Gbarain Aspirant.
Your Excellency, we appeal that as the leader of the party in the State, we want you to graciously use your good office to intervene in the matter of Yenagoa Local Government Area Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chairmanship Primaries as we restate our total support to the Restoration Agenda and policies to move the State forward.
Yours faithfully,
DR. SUOWARI GODSTIME ​​COMR. EBIYE MARTINS​
President, Gbarain Restoration ​​President, Gbarain Youth Federation Citizens Forum (GRCF)
COMR. PEREPUAYAGHA J.M. EBIKURO
IYC Chairman (Gbarain Clan)
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