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| Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipreye Sylva |
Blame is still being traded on who actually did what to aide APC’s victory in Bayelsa State governorship election last Saturday.
There is the assertion that former President Goodluck Jonathan greatly influenced the outcome of the election in favor of the APC as a consequence of perceived rift between the former president and the State's outgoing Governor Seriake Dickson.
However, there lies a group of individuals who pit the blame on Dickson himself for undermining Jonathan, and also for imposing his anointed candidate against the wishes of the people.
Among the latter group of individuals, is the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipreye Sylva, who himself, was a predecessor to outgoing Governor Dickson, said APC’s chances of winning the last election in the State was a dream made possible by Governor Dickson himself.
He said, Dickson's failure to deliver good governance to the people has turned them against him, hence the PDP's colossal failure in the last governorship election held in the State.
He therefore, while presenting the Bayelsa Governor-elect, David Lyon, to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Monday, 'thanked' Gov. Serike Dickson of Bayelsa for making it much easier for the All Progressives Congress (APC), take over Bayelsa State.
He said: “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.
“Gov. 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 round 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.’’
