By Bode Olagoke
Abuja
Former governor of Bayelsa state and the Senatorial candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa state, Chief Timipere Sylva, has said that the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, will have to work hard and beg Bayelsans to secure 25 per cent vote in his home state.
Silva added that he has more than the ten thousand reasons Nigerians should not re-elect President Jonathan, saying: “I am telling Nigerians no to cry more than the bereaved. If we Bayelsans have resolved not to vote President Jonathan, then, you must look at us and must do as we are doing.”
Meanwhile, a former commissioner of health in Bayelsa state under President Jonathan as governor, Chief Frank Akpoebi, has left the president to APC, accusing the President of victimizing the Ijaws, adding that he employed the tactics of divide and rule while he was the governor to deprive the Ijaws of government patronage.
Addressing journalists in Abuja on Sunday, Akpoebi said Bayelsa state government under Jonathan made sure no key project was cited in Ijaw villages nor did it empower the people.
“He started by playing politics of divide and rule and made sure no project goes to the Ijaw villages and this he has continued till date as no single federal project had been cited in my area.
“There is no way President Jonathan will continue to deceive the Ijaw nation. All the Ijaws in Bayelsa state know that Jonathan does not love us. Throughout his six years administration he did not appoint any Ijaw son as a Minister. The highest appointee was late General Andrew Azazi”, he said.
