Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, says Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa, whose tenure will end in February 2020, made it easy for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), David Lyon, to win the November 16 election.
He told President Muhammadu Buhari during the presentation of Mr Lyon at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Monday that the electoral victory of the APC candidate was made possible by what he described as “poor performance” by Dickson’s administration.
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“It’s been a very hectic week but I will like to bring in this Eritrean proverb, that if you marry a wife very well, you will be blessed with another wife,” he said.
“Governor Dickson, unfortunately, made our job very easy because he married the wife very badly. Of course, this proverb pre-supposes that if you marry a wife badly, you will not get another wife.
“So he did not marry the state very well, so the state roundly rejected him.
“Like it’s been said earlier, we had a good candidate and when you have a good product it’s very easy to sell it. So, we went around and sold this good to Bayelsans and the result was an overwhelming success.
“We are happy with this victory because for us it is very significant. This gives our party a footprint in the Niger Delta, which is very key to us. It gives us more of a national outlook, we have always been a national party but this gives us even a bigger national outlook.”
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APC national chairman, Adams Oshiohmole, said that apart from presenting the governor-elect to the president, he should be thanked for insisting that the elections must be conducted in a peaceful and transparent atmosphere.
Lyon polled 352,552 votes to defeat major opponent, Duoye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 143,172 votes.
