NEDU MARK, YENAGOA
As Bayelsans prepare for the December 5, 2015 governorship election, a frontline youth group in the Niger Delta, United Niger People for Dickson, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to set up panel of Inquiry to investigate the wanton killings and destruction of property that characterised the past government of Chief Timipre Sylva.
The group said that Chief Sylva ruled the state for four solid years without any dividends of democracy for the people, but that instead, the masses were oppressed and intimidated.
Director General of the group, Comrade Ibarakumo Otogbo, stated this on Wednesday in Yenagoa during an interaction with newsmen.
He also called on the Federal Government to investigate the character of the APC gubernatorial candidate and his political antecedents.
The Director General, who frowned at the killings and mayhem unleashed on innocent men and women in the state during that tenure, appealed to Buhari to call the All Progressives Congress, APC, flag bearer, Chief Sylva to order as the forthcoming governorship election is fast approaching.
Comrade Otogbo who described APC in the state as a disaster, appealed to Bayelsans and investors in the state to vote the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in next month’s polls for peace and stability
“We don’t want the state to be turned to a theatre of war, we want a level playing group for all the political parties and their supporters to vote the candidate of their choice and not violence.”
Earlier, Senior Special Assistant to Dickson on Niger Delta Affairs, Hon Kennedy Tonjo West said the APC in the state is a political eye sore, stressing that the state needs a God fearing and purposeful person as governor. He noted that youths and women in all the communities in the state have declared their total support for Governor Seriake Dickson’s re election come December 5, 2015.
The Aide appealed to youth groups and other affiliate bodies to vote the PDP and Dickson, describing the Permanent Voters Cards as their political power in the forthcoming election.
