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The crisis rocking the Bayelsa state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday took another dimension as ward chairmen in the state took a protest to the national Secretariat of the party in Abuja, asking the leadership of the party to correct the alleged manipulation of political appointments by the former governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva.

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The ward chairmen while staging a protest at the APC national Secretariat also told Chief Sylva not to retire from politics with all the political appointments meant for the APC members in the state.

The protesters who were seen carrying placards with various inscriptions like; “Lokpobiri says APC is Boko Haram,” “Bayelsa APC says in Tiwei we trust,” “Lokpobiri must go” among others were however, did not allow into the party Secretariat.

While addressing the newsmen, the APC chairman of the ward chairmen, Jephta Iyekuruwe, “We are here for a simple project, which is, we are not here to fight our leader, APC governorship candidate in Bayelsa state.

“Five executive chances were given to APC Bayelsa state in order to strengthen APC, because for now we don’t have a governor to take care of the party and by the special grace of God, Presidency through the National secretariat gave this five executive chances to Bayelsa state, but at the end of the day our candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva cornered all of them, use his own letter headed paper and sent five names without consulting the state executive,  led by Chief Timipa Tiwe’s administration.

“So base on that, as ward chairmen of Bayelsa state APC, we have labured, from inception of APC, we were tagged the Boko Haram party and supporters of Boko Haram party by some of the PDP people because then the President of Nigeria was from Bayelsa.

“We were told that our candidate Chief Timipre Sylva said he is retiring from politics, if he is retiring from politics, he shouldn’t retired with our five chances, because we want to use this five chances to strengthen APC Bayelsa State to take us to the promise land of Bayelsa state.”

Iyekuruwe, however, debunked the insinuation that Bayelsa state governor, Seriake Dickson, was sponsoring the crisis, saying, “there is nothing like Governor Dickson sponsoring APC, I have rightly explained that five chances are given to the party and we don’t have a governor, nobody is taking care of the party.”

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