APC does not have any political presence to win Bayelsa Guber poll, says Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress APC does not have any political presence at the ward, local government and state levels to win the November 16, 2019, governorship election in Bayelsa State.

Speaking during the PDP Elders Advisory Council meeting at Government House, Yenagoa, he explained that the large number of PDP aspirants showed the dominance of the party as a preferred platform for the election.



He said that the PDP had all the requirements to record a landslide victory at the forthcoming poll.

He said: “I need to plead with all the aspirants and all political leaders that there should be no mudslinging. We must free the space and eschew rancour because finally one person will become the candidate of the party and for that one person to win the election, all aspirants must work for that person.

“It is only our unity that can give us victory and if we are not united, they (APC) can get away with it.



“For example, it took the unity of the people of Rivers State including women who were resolute against soldiers to get the PDP victory in the state. If that had not happened, they (opposition) would have taken it.

“For us to secure this state for PDP we need maximum unity and that is why all the 21 aspirants are important to us; we must have that maximum unity and must not create any form of division or discrimination.

“At the end of the day one person will emerge and all of us will work for whoever emerges as candidate of the party”.