BAYELSA GUBER ELECTION: STOP INSULTING BUHARI, SGF AND ARMY, SYLVA TELLS DICKSON. - By Chief Nathan Egba Director, Media and Publicity Sylva-Igiri Campaign Organisation

PRESS RELEASE
12th December, 2015
BAYELSA GUBER ELECTION: STOP INSULTING BUHARI, SGF AND ARMY, SYLVA TELLS DICKSON
The Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, has cautioned Governor Seriake Dickson against disparaging and denigrating the person of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari over the inconclusive election in the state.
Chief Sylva noted with dismay the continued verbal tirades and threats being issued by the Governor in his desperation to remain in office, even in the face of outright rejection by a majority of the people of Bayelsa.
Dickson’s almost daily rituals of insulting Mr. President, the Secretary to the Government of Federation, (SGF), the Military High Command and other senior citizens of the country because of an election he is not able to win, it is no longer acceptable to say the least.
Chief Sylva said the recent frequent outburst on radio and television stations were unwarranted and unbecoming of a Governor. How can Dickson continue to incite Bayelsa people against the FG, security agencies, INEC and every other officials just because of the Bayelsa governorship election?
We recall that Governor Dickson told the people during his campaign to mobilise against what he called “plots by the presidency to use federal might in favour of the APC.” “And charged them to detain and tie down any security man suspected to be aiding or abetting electoral fraud”.
These are few of the numerous unguarded statements by Governor Dickson, a man who took an oath to defend the constitution.
Governor Dickson had alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari, wanted to win Bayelsa state for the APC by all means and that the consequence “of any attempts to undermine the Ijaw people would be disastrous” while also describing the Nigerian army as ‘army of occupation that must be driven out of Ijaw land”
We are compelled to forward all these inciting statements by Governor Dickson as recorded off the several radio broadcast to the Security Agencies for further investigation.
For the avoidance of doubt, however, all the allegations levelled against President Muhammadu Buhari, Secretary to the Government of Federation, Minister of Defence and the security agencies deployed for the election in Bayelsa are false, baseless and figment of the imagination of Governor Dickson and the PDP.
Nigerians and the world know that President Buhari remains a man of honour and integrity who has not shown any bias in this election being an apostle of transparent, free and fair electoral process.
Unfortunately, Mr. President desire to conduct free, fair and credible elections, devoid of violence has been truncated by the violent act and electoral fraud perpetrated by Governor Dickson and his PDP thugs imported into Bayelsa state to compromise the election.
Governor Dickson, was the chief sponsor of violence at an unprecedented scale in the recent election in all the 8 Local Government Areas but he is now using propaganda to paint the APC as a the guilty party. We are however, unperturbed because the people of Bayelsa exactly know what transpired and the world too will soon know the real truth.
Chief Nathan Egba
Director, Media and Publicity
Sylva-Igiri Campaign Organisation