APC ‘ll Win In Bayelsa To Enact Buhari’s Change — Timipre Sylva

FORMER Bayelsa State Governor and leader of the All

Progressives Congress, APC, in the state Chief

Timipre Sylva has boasted that the party will take

over the reins of government in Bayelsa to replicate

the change going on at the federal level in the state.  

 Sylva, who made the declaration during a condolence

visit to the family of late Col. Sam Inokoba, the

immediate past state chairman of the Peoples

Democratic Party, PDP in the state said the PDP led

administration in the state is in its twilight, ready to

bow out.

The former PDP chairman had last month defected to

the APC and indicated interest in obtaining the party’s

governorship ticket.

Speaking during a condolence visit to the Inokoba

family, Sylva represented by the state party

chairman, Chief Tiwei Orunimighe, who led other

members of the state executives to the residence of

the late party chieftain described the late Inokoba as

a man who left behind a glowing political legacy.

He said the late Inokoba was not satisfied with the

development in the PDP, hence his defection to the

APC.

His words, “He left a comfort zone as the chairman of

a ruling party in the state, to join APC because he

didn’t like what was going on in the PDP, and that

goes to show the character of such a person, he

wasn’t satisfied with their activities, that was why he

joined us and had to even bought form to contest the

governorship seat because he wanted the desire

change for the state.”

Resolve of the party

He expressed the resolve of the party to participate

in the burial formalities and assured the members of

his family that APC will continue to stand by them.

In his remarks elder Robbins Inokoba, described the

late Inokoba as an achiever, stressing that he

consulted and received the blessings of the family

before joining APC when he became uncomfortable

with the PDP.

He said the last conversation between him and his

brother was for him to be prepared to work for

Change advocated by the APC as he was on his way to

procure his Expression of Interest and Nomination

Forms to contest the governorship primaries of the

party in the state.