The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Adams
Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to be
mindful of his utterances over the judgement of the supreme court on the
Bayelsa governorship election.
The supreme court had sacked David Lyon, candidate of the
APC in the March election, ordering the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) to issue certificate of return to the candidate with the
second highest number of votes.
PDP came second in the election and is expected to be
favoured by the ruling.
But at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Oshiomhole
said Duoye Diri, the PDP candidate did not meet the requirements of being sworn
in as governor.
The APC chairman said the implication of the ruling is that
from Friday, the state would be without a governor.
However, Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the opposition
party, said the APC national chairman is plotting to foist violence on Bayelsa.
Ologbondiyan asked Oshiomhole whom he described as
“factional national chairman” to steer off Bayelsa on Friday.
“The people of Bayelsa state know as a fact that the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under our laws, cannot take
instructions from any individual, let alone a factional national chairman of a
dysfunctional political party like the APC,” he said in a statement.
“The PDP, as a law-abiding party, counsels Oshiomhole to
rein in himself and desist from all odious designs against Bayelsa state, her
people and government.
“The PDP also calls on the people of Bayelsa state to remain
calm as their mandate has been restored and cannot be taken away by the ranting
of any individual who has no stake whatsoever in the wellbeing of his own home
state.”
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