Despite APC’s waning popularity, the party still believes Bayelsa State is in the bag

Former President Goodluck Jonathan

If you think all the lamentations and #RevolutionNow outcry against Buhari and the APC government, is enough to quell the party’s ambition of taking over oil states in the country, well you're wrong! At least not when you read what the party's Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, said ahead of Bayelsa's governorship election coming in the State.



Nabena who seemed outraged by Jonathan's earlier claim that the APC has no presence in Bayelsa State, said the former president never contested and won any election even in his home state of Bayelsa.

Speaking in a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Nabena cautioned Jonathan to be mindful of making misguided comments so as not to ridicule his personality. He also boasts saying no amount of “falsehood and rigging” of the November 16, 2019 governorship election in Bayelsa State can stop PDP’s defeat at the poll.

“Former President Jonathan has never contested any election and won. Even that of 2015, he contested as a sitting President, he lost woefully. The recent 2019 senatorial election in Bayelsa state, APC defeated Jonathan’s candidate in his senatorial district.




“Jonathan is attempting to rewrite history on presidential elections conducted under his watch in Bayelsa state while he was President. He never won as votes never counted. Aided by security agents, election results were simply announced by the election body in favour of the PDP.”

“Former President Goodluck Jonathan even lost in his senatorial zone in the last 2019 National Assembly election won by the APC candidate. So one wonders the party Jonathan refers to as not being on ground in Bayelsa state.”


The Deputy National Publicity Secretary believes PDP's popularity is a thing of the past and that the party stands to be rejected in the State for good.