The All Progressives Congress, APC, has suspended the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, along with its 2019 Bayelsa governorship candidate, David Lyon, due to alleged anti-party activities.
Alongside Lokpobiri and Lyon, several prominent figures were
also suspended, including Commissioner for Power Kharim Kumoko, Commissioner
for Lands and Survey Peres Biewari, former APC state chairman Jothan Amos, NEC
ex-officio member Godbless Diriwari, and Southern Ijaw APC Youth Leader Sabi
Morgan.
These suspensions came after a disciplinary review by the
party’s leadership in Bayelsa State.
During the announcement in Yenagoa, Mitin Eniekenemi
Senator, the APC Chairman for Ekeremor Local Government Area, accused Lokpobiri
of leading factions and collaborating with the opposition Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, following his unsuccessful bid for the APC governorship ticket in
2019.
He claimed that Lokpobiri and his supporters actively backed
Bayelsa Governor Douye Diri and the PDP in the 2023 election, receiving
appointments and contracts as rewards.
“In the 2023 gubernatorial election in Bayelsa State, he led
a group of disgruntled party members to openly support and work for Gov. Douye
Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party and was compensated by the PDP-led
government of Bayelsa State”, he said.
He continued, “His personal aide, Kharim Kumoko, was
nominated by the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources (Oil), Sen. Heineken
Lokpobiri and appointed as the current Commissioner for Power in Bayelsa State.
“It is on record that since the day he was appointed as
minister, he has been fighting the party in Bayelsa State and has refused to
make peace despite all entreaties.”
Similarly, the APC Southern Ijaw LGA leadership, led by
Ebikazi Gbefa, announced the suspension of David Lyon and seven others for
undermining APC’s National Assembly candidates and conspiring with the PDP in
the 2023 governorship race.
Gbefa said “The same set of stakeholders and their
supporters openly worked against our National Assembly candidates” pointing out
that they also worked for Diri and the PDP in the 2023 governorship election in
Bayelsa State.
“Some of them were compensated with contracts and
appointments. For example, Perepuighe Biewari who was Chief David Lyon’s
Personal Assistant, was nominated by Chief David Lyon and appointed as the
current Commissioner for Lands and Survey in the Gov. Douye Diri administration
in Bayelsa State.”
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