By Hamilton Nwosa(Head the New Diplomat Business and Poll Tracking Desk)
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has issued a stern warning to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to desist from acts capable of throwing Bayelsa state into crisis, stressing that peddling lies and falsehood against the APC leadership in Bayelsa State would not be tolerated.
The APC in its statement accused one Godspower Keku of the PDP of peddling tissues of lies against the national chairman of the APC, comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and leader of APC in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, and urged security agencies to fish out Keku and call him to order.
According to the APC, the unguarded utterances of Keku who is the State Secretary of the PDP and his folks are capable of throwing up anarchy in Bayelsa State, warning that law enforcement agents should as a matter of urgency bring the said Keku to order before he sets the state ablaze. The APC which reacted via its deputy National Publicity Secretary , Yekini Nabena said the stern warning became necessary because of the unguarded and reckless utterances of Keku against Oshiomhole and Sylva, as well as inflaming tension in the State following the Supreme Court verdict on the Bayelsa governorship polls which nullified Chief David Lyon’s election as governor-elect of Bayelsa State.
Nabena cited “unprovoked attacks” on the Minister and the APC national leadership by the PDP Bayelsa State Secretary, Godspower Keku following the Supreme Court decision on Bayelsa Governorship Review.
Recall that the PDP Bayelsa scribe had made some reckless accusations against the Minister and the national chairman of APC regarding the emergence of David Lyon and Degi.
The Bayelsa-born APC chieftain described the media reports credited to PDP’s state scribe as “all fabrications to cause disaffection not only in the APC fold but in Bayelsa state”.
The APC deputy spokesman also called on leaders of thought in the state to call the said Keku to order. “I read the unprovoked and unwarranted attacks by one Godspower Keku, purported Bayelsa State Secretary of the PDP on the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva and the APC national leadership in which Chief Sylva was particularly hurled several concocted and mischievous allegations.
“As law abiding people, we have accepted the decisions of the Supreme Court on the Bayelsa Governorship in good faith. However, I strongly urge the PDP in Bayelsa State not to take for granted the 352,552 electorate who voted overwhelmingly for their governorship choice by making insensitive and infuriating statements.
“Perhaps, the PDP in Bayelsa is out of tune with the current state government and needs to be called to order. In the interest of peace and the development of Bayelsa, we have appealed to our supporters and members to be peaceful and accept the ruling. The Bayelsa PDP’s attempt to stir the hornets nest and further infuriate Bayelsans is ill thought, careless and reckless,” Nabena advised.
