Bayelsa poll: APC optimistic of defeating Diri 

.Says members united

Ahead of November 11 governorship election in Bayelsa State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted the notions in certain quarters that there is disunity among the party chieftains.

The Secretary, Media and Publicity Committee of the National Gubernatorial Campaign Council for the state, Yekini Nabena, urged the electorate to disregard the claim by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state that the Minister of State for Petroleum, Heineken Lokpobiri, and 2019 governorship candidate, David Lyon, are working for Governor Douye Diri.

Nabena, who is a former APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, said that all suggestions of a crack in the camp of the APC in the state are a ruse.

He described the report as a propaganda sponsored by the PDP camp to cause disaffection within the winning APC team.

Quoting sources, he said that there are some media reports suggesting that Diri had conceded 50 slots of Senior Special Assistants (SSAs) each to Lokpobiri and Lyon, and has also promised them some measures of influence on decision-making.

But faulting the reports through a statement, yesterday, in Abuja, Nabena released recent pictures where both Lokpobiri and Lyon recommitted themselves before the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to deliver Timipre Sylva and the party in Bayelsa.

Nabena said the propaganda tactics being employed by the PDP camp towards the governorship election would not work, because people have made up their minds to sack the PDP administration for under-developing the state.

“Our attention has been drawn to a sponsored propaganda in some quarters suggesting cracks in the camp of the Bayelsa APC, ahead of the November 11 governorship election in the state.

“We will not be distracted, because we are fully aware how desperate the incumbent governor has become, employing all manners of tactics, including propaganda and lies to cause confusion. But sadly for the PDP, it is just too late because Bayelsans have made up their minds to sack the under-developer of the oil rich state.