The governorship candidate of the All
Progressives Congress in the forthcoming election in Bayelsa State,
Chief Timipre Sylva, has alleged that a senior officer of the
Independent National Electoral Commission is working for the Peoples
Democratic in the state.
The former governor made the allegation on Friday in a statement by his campaign outfit, the Sylva-Igiri Campaign Organisation.
Sylva said, “We have been inundated with
calls and reports that a particular senior member of the commission in
the state headquarters is a PDP agent. This is because of the role the
ranking official played in the last Presidential, National Assembly and
House of Assembly elections, working closely with appointees of Governor
Seriake Dickson.
“While
our campaign organisation is irrevocably committed to ensuring peaceful
and credible poll, the electoral body must also purge some of its staff
and personnel who are believed to be showing sympathy to the ruling
party in the state.”
Sylva, therefore, urged INEC to follow
the laid down rules in the accreditation of election monitors and
observers for the December 5 governorship election in the state. He said
his observation followed the purported public endorsement of Dickson
for another term by over 400 non-governmental organisations in the
state.
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