Bayelsa Governorship election, result already written-PDP

Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja
The national leadership of the Peoples
Democratic Party has raised the alarm that the Saturday January 9 governorship election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State may be a formality.

It alleged that the All Progressives Congress in conjunction with the military, the police and Independent National Electoral Commission
have already written the result of the yet-to-be conducted election.
Election is expected to hold on Saturday in the Southern Ijaw LGA and some parts of the state to conclude the governorship election in the
South-South state.
Our correspondent  gathered that Southern Ijaw has a total of 120,827 registered voters, while
the commission was also targeting 38,000 votes in the three affected local governments.
Bayelsa state has a total of 663,639 registered voters.
Governor Seriake Dickson, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party is leading a former
Governor of the state, who is also the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Timipre Sylva, in the already conducted election.
However, the Acting National Chairman of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, said in a statement in Abuja on Friday that his party had gathered from intelligence report that the Saturday
election would be a mere formality, alleging that the APC government has already written the results ahead of the election.
According to Secondu, “Southern Ijaw is the home local government of former governor of the state, the late Chief DSP Alamiseighga and a known Ijaw leader.
“The state is politically divided into Nembe, Ogbia and Southern Ijaw, that is the home LGA of ijaws where governor Dickson hails from.
“This is the strongest home base of the PDP. PDP has been winning elections in this core Ijaw LGA because it is the ancestral home of all Ijaws where the former governor and Ijaw
leader DSP Alamiseigha and Dickson hail from.
“Intelligence report at our disposal shows that the election is just a mere formality as results
have been written with INEC standing as the
main culprit.”
He alleged further that some officials of the
Federal Government and some ministers have
directed the INEC to write the results in favour
of APC.
“There is the use of Police and military
personnel to intimidate voters and also scare
them away as results are already written as
directed,” he added
Secondus said that winning the Bayelsa
governorship election is part of APC’s plot of having a foothold in the South-South, saying, “all ministers and government officials from the zone have been directed to ensure that Bayelsa is delivered to the APC at all cost.”