The factional chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Richard Kpodo, has described as "misplaced" the claim by National Chairman John Odigie-Oyegun that the political leaders from the State can only gain access to President Muhammadu Buhari through the former governor, Timipre Sylva.
The factional chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Richard Kpodo, has described as "misplaced" the claim by National Chairman John Odigie-Oyegun that the political leaders from the State can only gain access to President Muhammadu Buhari through the former governor, Timipre Sylva.
According to Mr. Kpodo, though President Buhari has made it clear that he is for everybody and for nobody, the utterance of the Party chairman is a calculated attempt to make the people of Bayelsa State politically enslaved by the Mr. Sylva.
Mr. Kpodo, in a statement issued on Friday in Yenagoa, said the decision by Mr. Odigie-Oyegun to hand such political power in Bayelsa State to Mr. Timipre is disappointing and a clear indication that the change being advocated by the APC is not a certainty. “How can the National Chairman be praising Sylva and saying he is the only access to the President?” Mr. Kpodo said. “How can he say that it is only through Judas that we are to see Jesus Christ? How can he say that it is only through a man with corruption charges hanging over him that we are to see the symbol of anti-corruption?”
Kpodo also faulted the decision by the National Leadership of the Party to welcome the recent PDP heavyweights into the APC despite earlier warnings. “To our surprise the National Chairman came to Yenagoa and accepted the defectors. What are the political qualifications of the decampees? What is their electoral values? If they are coming into the party to avoid prosecution, would that not go against the posture of the President? We are warning that if any implosion occurred in the APC, Sylva and others should be held responsible."