Bayelsa: With Sylva’s A’Court victory, APC upbeat to unseat Diri

The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) In Bayelsa State has said Governor Douye Diri cannot escape the wrath of the electorate in next week’s polls.

Secretary, Media and Publicity Committee of APC Campaign Council, Yekini Nabena, spoke to reporters, in Abuja, after the party’s candidate in the state, Timipre Sylva, was cleared by the Court of Appeal to vie for the governorship seat.

The APC spokesman said the era of using backdoors to emerge as governor is over.

The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, vacated the judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja, which disqualified Sylva from participating in the poll.

A High Court in Abuja had, in a judgment, on October 9, declared Sylva ineligible to participate in the gubernatorial contest, having already spent five years in office as governor of the state.

Reacting to the judgment, Nabena, a former APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, said Diri could not escape the judgment of the masses in Bayelsa, “who have been badly affected by his bad governance in the last four years.”

According to the APC chieftain, the workers, pensioners and the traditional rulers Diri refused to care about their welfare and will also speak loudly with their votes on November 11.

On his part, Sylva has assured that he would unseat Diri at the poll.

Sylva, who met with the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja to celebrate the Court of Appeal decision, which cleared him to vie at the poll, accused his PDP rival of masterminding the attempt to disqualify him from contesting in the poll.

He said notwithstanding the distractions at the court, he had traversed the length and breadth of the state to rally the support of the electorate to vote for him at the poll.