Former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva has predicted that the Peoples Democratic Party will soon be defeated in Bayelsa state.
Slyvia who spoke with journalists during a stopover in Yenagoa ahead of Sunday’s rescheduled House of Assembly elections in his community, Okpoama and Otuokpoti, said “Let me tell you, the fear elements being used by the PDP is no longer there. Because Jonathan was an incumbent, there was fear but now, it is no longer there. And that is why there has been an upsurge in the support for the APC.
“It is the same thing Governor Seriake Dickson is experiencing. He is ruling the state with fear and intimidation. And when you rule by intimidating your people, then the loyalty is liable to break under any form of stress. That is what happened during slavery. And that is what happened with colonialism. Once you rule a people by fear and not love, it will break. The time for that loyalty to break is now. Today, I was in Otuokpoti community in Ogbia and I told them that the PDP is dead. You can continue to shift the date of the party’s burial forward.
“PDP has tried to postpone the date of funeral all the time. I said it that the PDP had postponed the funeral from 14th of February to March 28th but of what use was it. The party and the man are dead. So, it is evident that the PDP was dead on the 28th of March, 2015. They only shifted the funeral by some few weeks. The PDP is a dead party. And by whatever way, I don’t take anything into account because the party is dead. It is only the date of the funeral that has been shifted in Bayelsa again. When the date of the funeral is fixed, we shall invite you, the media to celebrate with the people of Bayelsa State and the APC.”
He also described former President Goodluck Jonathan’s act of conceding defeat as an inevitable act not because the former president is a hero of democracy.
He said “For me, conceding defeat is not an achievement. Let us take a look at the events. They tried everything to subvert and thwart. They tried to go to court to stop the announcement of the result. Even former minister, Godsday Orubebe, tried to stage a coup during the announcement to allow some paid ex-militants to invade the venue.
“They asked the former Inspector-General of Police to withdraw security from the venue to allow ex-militants invade the venue. When all these failed, what did you expect him to do? If the Super Eagles played a football match and were defeated, they now accepted defeat, is that an achievement?
“Seriously, if this is the level where Nigeria has descended to, it is a sorry state. We cannot be praising somebody for loosing in such manner. He (Jonathan) didn’t have any other choice whatsoever. What would he have done? To kill himself? Any other thing for Jonathan to do in Aso Rock would have been suicide, or self-destructive? At that point. Jonathan also knew it. What he should be saying is that at that point, he did not self-destruct. So he is now a hero? If one can be a hero so cheaply in Nigeria, then it is sad. For the APC, what we considered was that there is no need to rub the defeat in. The man is down and we decided to humour him out of office.”
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