The governorship flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming election in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva says that his party remains the best platform to change the state for better.
According to him, the four years of the Peoples Democratic Party in power in the state had witnessed retrogression and underdevelopment.
Sylva, while speaking with newsmen in Yenagoa called on the Ijaw nation to vote the APC, saying that the state had a history of aligning with the ruling party at the centre.
He described as cheap sentiment the claim that the PDP is “Ijaw party” saying the only true Ijaw party was the National Solidarity Movement (NSM) formed by the late Chief Melford Okilo.
Sylva said he was one of the founding members of the PDP in the state before he left for the APC and described the incumbent governor as a beneficiary of the PDP having crossed from the, Alliance for Democracy, AD.
“I have said in other fora that none of the parties, either APC or PDP is an Ijaw party, they are national parties. I was one of those who brought PDP into Bayelsa; he (Dickson) was not even a member of the PDP. He was a member of AD at that time.
“He was never even a member of the PDP and that is, he doesn’t know that I know the PDP more than him and what the PDP stands for, even though I am not a member of that party now.
“The APC is also a national party. The true Ijaw party we had was called the NSM, the National Solidarity Movement, formed by the late sage, Chief Melford Okilo. That party, when Chief Okilo realize that PDP has won the national government he decided to subsumed that party into the PDP because he thought that we cannot survive without the centre”, he added.
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