Timipreye Sylva the Minister for State for Petroluem has narrated to President Buhari how Governor Dickson Made APC’s Victory In Bayelsa Much Easier. Mr Timipreye Sylva said he owed his gratitude to Dickson
He disclosed this after presenting the Bayelsa Governor-elect, David Lyon, to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Monday When he visited Aso Villa with David Lyon.
Sylva attributed the electoral victory of the APC candidate to what he described as “poor performance by the Bayelsa State government”.
According to Him “It’s been a very hectic week but I will like to bring in this Eritrean proverb, that if you marry a wife very well, you will be blessed with another wife.
“Gov. Dickson, unfortunately made our job very easy because he married the wife very badly. Of course this proverb pre-supposes that if you marry a wife badly, you will not get another wife. So he did not marry the state very well, so the state roundly rejected him. This drew laughter from Buhari and thouse present.
“Like it’s been said earlier, we had a good candidate and when you have a good product, it’s very easy to sell it. So, we went round and sold this good to Bayelsans and the result was an overwhelming success.
“We are happy with this victory because for us it is very significant. This gives our party a advantage in the Niger Delta, which is very important to us. It gives us more of a national outlook, we have always been a national party but this gives us even a bigger national outlook.’’
Gov. Atiku Abubakar of Kebbi, who alongside his Jigawa counterpart Badaru Abubakar, presented Lyon to the president, commended Buhari for his consistent preaching of fair and transparent elections in the country.
“Many people worked hard in making this happen, most importantly, Mr President, who has always shown the party that win or lose we should aim for free, transparent and fair elections.
“Because, that is what will guarantee peace, confer legitimacy and support for elected persons to proudly execute the mandate that they are given. And in Bayelsa we have seen a demonstration of that.m
“Everyone is talking about how free, transparent and fair the elections were.
Abubakar, who is the chairman of All Progressives Congress Governors’ Forum, said the APC victory in Bayelsa was well received by almost all citizens of the state.
He said: “We were in Bayelsa for over 72 hours, we didn’t noticed any voilence or even see a tyre burning, we didn’t see people running, we didn’t hear a gunshot, everyone was incelebration mood in all the areas we passed, which shows the acceptance of our candidate, our party and the process itself.
“It is equally noteworthy that Bayelsa is a home of a former president of Nigeria and this election won by a party different from the one he belongs, has been accepted by all including people around him, his kinsmen and the entire Bayelsa. Wild jubilation were reported in many parts of Bayelsa immediately APC was declared the winner of the Governorship election.
“And so far, from what we hear, Goodluck Jonathan is said to be also happy with the outcome of the election irrespective of the difference in the party affiliation, which is an indication of the transparency of the entire process.’’ We appreciate Jonathan's fatherly role he played to ensure peaceful election in Bayelsa.
Adams Oshiohmole, who was present at the event also spoke, he said apart from introducing the Gov-elect to the president, they also thanked him for insisting that the elections must be conducted in a peaceful and transparent atmosphere.
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