Governor Seriake Dickson’s campaign team, the Restoration Campaign Organisation, RCO, has claimed that former Bayelsa state governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, will be humiliated in the January 9, 2016 rescheduled governorship election in some parts of the state.
While denying claims of buying up voter cards ahead of the rerun poll in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state, the group stressed that Sylva would be roundly defeated in the rescheduled poll.
The campaign organization said rumours in certain quarters that the Governor had stopped payment of December salaries to civil servants in the state was an outright lie and a false propaganda by the All Progressives Congress, APC.
In a statement on Monday, the organisation’s Director of Publicity, Jonathan Obuebite, said the claims by the APC were vicious propaganda on the part of Sylva to win the re-run election at all costs.
Obuebite stated that civil servants in the state know that the governor cannot take such an action because they know him as “the most civil servant friendly governor who places premium on their welfare and general well-being.”
He noted that when other states were owing workers salary for five to eight months and resorting to bailout, Dickson went out of his way to make the much needed sacrifice by cutting down on his personal allowances, including those of his aides and other political appointees just to meet up with the monthly obligations to workers.
Reacting to claim that the PDP has purchases PVCs ahead of the re-run poll, the group stated that such allegations were vicious lie and propaganda of the APC, adding that no amount of campaign of calumny would save Sylva from imminent defeat in the rerun election.
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