APC candidate, Timipre Sylva and Bayelsa State Gov. Seriake Dickson
The All Progressives Congress has explained the loss of its candidate Timipre Sylva in the just concluded Bayelsa State gubernatorial poll.
The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has explained that the party lost the governorship election in Bayelsa State because of unresolved intra-party misunderstanding.
Speaking with reporters on Monday, January 11, at his Abuja home, Frank said that the party’s internal crisis, which arose from the primary election, was not resolved.
The spokesman said APC’s governorship candidate in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, did not take reconciliation seriously ahead of the election.
Frank, who said he was speaking as an APC stakeholder in Bayelsa State and not for the party, threatened legal action against the national leadership of the party, if they continued to deny him the right to function as the Acting National Publicity Secretary, as enshrined in the party constitution.
He said: “Before this election, Bayelsa APC had issues, which were not attended to. I have been shouting about these. I made it clear that if we didn’t resolve our issues and went into the election, we were going to lose Bayelsa. But nobody listened. I cried and cried, spoke to our leaders and many other people about the need for reconciliation and its importance.
“But the governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva, refused to listen, thinking he could do it alone. Today, look at the result! When some of us told him to make peace, he refused. After the primary, he never spoke to anybody; thinking he could do the job alone. I said then that with Sylva, we would lose Bayelsa. But nobody listened to me. The result has played out.
“It was important to make peace so that all of us will come together. If we had done that, the result would have been different. It is quite painful that we lost Bayelsa. But it is an eye-opener.”
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