Bayelsa guber: APC will defeat PDP, Timi Frank says
- Comrade Timi Frank has tipped the APC to win the forthcoming governorship election in Bayelsa state
- Frank, a former APC deputy spokesperson, said the PDP flagbearer in the state is weak and cannot defeat his APC counterpart
- The political activist said the PDP will regret its decision for allegedly handpicking an unpopular candidate
Comrade Timi Frank, a political activist, has claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would lose the forthcoming governorship election in Bayelsa state to the All Progressives Congress (APC) for fielding an alleged weak candidate.
Frank subsequently congratulated the candidate of the APC in Bayelsa state, David Lyon, ahead of the elections, according to a report by Leadership newspaper.
In a statement in Abuja on Friday, September 6, Frank who is a former deputy national publicity secretary of the APC, claimed that the APC’s candidate is better placed to win the governorship election.
“APC will win the forthcoming governorship election in Bayelsa state seeing the weak candidate (Governor Seriake) Dickson and the PDP have chosen as their flag-bearer,” Frank claimed.
“It is not my wish for the APC to win the forth coming Bayelsan governorship election in November as I am not a member of the APC neither am I a supporter of the party, but from the look of things, the choice made by Dickson and the PDP is not inspiring. Actually, it’s disappointing."
He said that he also predicted Chief Timipre Sylva's defeat in 2015.
“I want to remind those that are surprised that this was the same position I took against my former party, the APC in 2015, when the former governor and now the minister of state for petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva was nominated. He lost the election," Frank said.
“History is about to repeat itself albeit in PDP because it is making the same mistake that the APC made in 2015.
“Therefore, the handpicked PDP’s candidate will lose the forth coming governorship election in Bayelsa state."
Frank claimed that the PDP governorship candidate was handpicked against the wishes of the people, adding that the party will regret its action.
He continued: “To prove my point, it could be recalled there was neither excitement nor jubilation from Bayelsans after the ‘arrangee’ primaries that produced the PDP’s candidate.
“The adhoc congress already programmed him to win, Bayelsans and PDP know that there was no congress in Bayelsa as it was programmed in a way to favour him. PDP will regret its action as it will son boomerang against them."
“Bayelsans had looked forward to a formidable candidate in the person of Chief Timi Alaibe but some powerful forces from the PDP’s NWC and Governor Dickson traded Timi Alaibe for a weak candidate for selfish reasons to enable the APC to take over the governorship of Bayelsa state.
“I am pained to see that Bayelsans will have no choice than to vote for APC which has a better candidate.
“Bayelsans should hold Dickson and PDP’s NWC responsible for the imminent APC’s victory in the state.
“I would have loved the PDP’s candidate to win as he is from my constituency but it is not feasible as this is a man that lost his local government during the last election."
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, said that the party would win the governorship election in Kogi and Bayelsa states.
Tinubu who spoke in Benin city at the 90th birthday of Chief David Edebiri, the Esogban of Benin kingdom, said he expects victory for the APC in both states.
He said there was no other political party in the two states. Tinubu said the broom would come together to sweep away the debris of the past to secure electoral victory.
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