Ahead the governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa state, former Managing Director Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Timi Alaibe, have picked Nomination and Expression of Interest forms to seek the ticket.
A group, identified as friends of Timi Alaibe, led by Senator John Branbaife, who obtained the forms yesterday on behalf of the former NDDC boss, said that his achievements over the years prompted them to do so.
He told newsmen that his group have taken pain to search for a particular candidate who has what it takes to rescue the state and have find thise quality they needed in Alaibe.
“So we have decided to buy the form for him and present it to our people as the most favourable candidate because he will be the best to take the mantle of leaderahip in Bayelsa.”
While presenting the forms, National Organising Secretary of APC, Osita Izunaso, revealed that Alaibe is now number tenth aspirants that have shown interest.
He assured that the national leadership of APC will ensure that the primaries is as credible as the one they conducted last week Saturday in Kogi.
Reacting in an interview to governor Seriaki Dickson’s report that APC does not have a credible candidate to unseat him in Bayelsa, Senator Branbaife, said: “Dickson is not a candidate of APC and he has right to his opinion, but I want to assure you there is nobody including Dickson himself that can stand the APC candidate Alaibe, there is nobody in APC or anywhere else in an election in Bayelsa state. So, whatever he is saying that is his own personal opinion and thats a political statement.”
