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Gov Sylva boasts:Alaibe’s Labour Party, a paper
tiger
Though their 'clash' has been deferred till next year,
Governor Timi Sylva who will be slugging it out with his main
rival, Timi Alaibe of Labour Party has raised the tempo of the
campaign ahead of the guber polls in Bayelsa.He believes the
results of Tuesday's House of Assembly elections show that
LP is just a media creation since it is virtually non-
existent in the state.
Sylva in a press release today actuallythanked the Bayelsa
electorate for overwhelmingly voting for Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) in the House of Assembly election, promising that
the party would continue to keep faith with the people.
The governor
who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Doifie Ola,
described the poll as demonstrating conclusively that the PDP is
on the ground in Bayelsa State, “while the so-called opposition
parties are merely building castles in the air.”
The governor declared: “I am comfortable with one so-called
party winning on the pages of newspapers while we are winning in
the hearts and minds of our people. Unfortunately, for the
opposition, newspapers do not vote, only the people do.”
In the State House of Assembly elections held on Tuesday, PDP
won 20 of the 21 seats so far declared by the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Bayelsa State House of Assembly has 24 seats. Labour
Party, despite all its media hype, could not win any seat. It
was comprehensively defeated in the Kolokuma/Opukuma home
constituency of its chief promoter, Mr. Ndutimi Alaibe. Even
little known KOWA Party was able to win one seat.
Sylva said, “What the results clearly show is that elections are
won on the strength of political structures built around the
people, not on the basis of configurations erected around the
media.” He advised the Bayelsa electorate to continue to vote
PDP as it is the only party with the capacity to address the
myriad social and economic challenges facing the state.
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