Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson has called on youths from Southern Ijaw area of the state to mobilise their people and vote massively for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the rescheduled January 9, 2016 governorship election.
In a statement on Sunday by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, Dickson said in spite of the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare the poll inconclusive, the party had already won.
DAILY POST recalls that the election umpire had cancelled the poll in the Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state rendering the December 5 and 6 elections in the state inconclusive.
Following the cancellation, INEC had slated a re-run for January 9, 2016 to decide who emerges the eventual winner of the governorship poll between Dickson of the PDP and Chief Timipre Sylva candidate of the All Progressives Congress.
Before INEC declared the poll inconclusive, Dickson had 105,748 votes from seven out of the eight Local Government Areas, remaining SILGA as against Sylva’s 72,534, indicating that Dickson beat Sylva by 33,214 votes.
Expressing his gratitude to the youth for their show of solidarity, Dickson stated that the victory would not be completed until the Southern Ijaw election was won by the PDP, stressing that PDP represents the overall interest of the Ijaw people.
“The opposition is afraid of defeat that is why they decided to mar the poll with violence. In spite of that, be peaceful and conduct yourselves properly during the forthcoming poll, as all your leaders are behind the party.
“In a stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja, all the agencies of the government, including the security, INEC and others have agreed to conduct a peaceful election, without bias from any interested party, as the result will be determined by the use of Permanent Voter Card,” Dickson said.
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