PRESS RELEASE
‘Steer Clear Of Bayelsa
Governorship Election’, PDP Tells Buhari
The
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) forewarns President Muhammadu Buhari to steer
clear of Bayelsa governorship election and allow the will of the people to prevail, if he really desires to
sustain the nation’s democracy.
PDP
National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh in a statement on Sunday said
intelligence information reaching the party shows that President Buhari is
neck-deep in APC’s desperation to forcefully take over Bayelsa state, for which
he has directed a covert military and other security operations to assist the
APC to rig the election, which has already been won by the PDP.
“At
the head of this illegal military operation is one Capt. Louis, who led the
hijacking of elections in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area, the largest in
the state. Military personnel have seized ballot materials including result
sheets in Igbematiru, Peremabiri, ward 3, ward 6, ward 8, ward 12, ward 13 and
ward 15, which they took to Ologbobiri in military gunboats, where massive
thumb-printing is going on in favour of the APC. In Ward 7 Ekowe, the military
hijacked and destroyed voting materials.
