Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated Senator Douye Diri, the newly elected candidate of the party for the November 16 election.
State Secretary of the party, Chief Godspower Keku, said in a statement that the party was happy with the emergence of Diri as its flagbearer, adding that the election was keenly contested, transparent and credible.
Keku described Diri as a committed public official with years of exemplary service to the development of Bayelsa, the Ijaw Nation and the country.
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He noted that Bayelsa was in need of a leader with vast experience in public service like Diri who, he said, had been a commissioner, a principal executive secretary to the governor, member of the Federal House of Representatives and later the Senate.
The PDP scribe commended the other 20 aspirants of the party who contested the election with Diri for their display of maturity and respect for the overall interest of the party.
Keku called on the aspirants to support the candidate of the party, stressing that the primaries could only produce one candidate out of the 21 aspirants who indicated interest in the governorship of the state.
Meanwhile, the PDP has flayed the APC over the emergence of pipeline security surveillance contractor, Mr. David Lyon, as the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
Keku said that the leader of the APC in the state and Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, schemed out all the qualified contestants from the race only to impose David Lyon.
“We wonder whether David Lyon was being prodded to contest a local government election or the governorship of Bayelsa”, he quried.
He said that the APC candidate lacked the requisite credentials, experience and pedigree to become governor of Bayelsa State.
He described the APC primaries which produced Lyon as a sham, adding that Lyon was Sylva’s personal imposition.
