The Bayelsa State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to recent court judgments that first disqualified its governorship running mate, Degi Eremienyo and later nullified the governorship primary election conducted on September 4 this year.
Addressing a press conference at the Bayelsa State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) on Thursday, the state chairman, Jottas Amos, asked the party’s supporters to calm, saying that APC had appealed the judgments, while filing for stay of execution of the judgments.
Amos stated that the governorship candidate, “Chief David Lyon and his running mate, Bishop Degi Eremienyo, are fully on the ballot for the election. “Don’t listen to rumours, come out en masse and vote for the APC and David Lyon.
“That is the assurance we are giving to Bayelsans. Come and vote,” he said, while likening what the party is experiencing to the travails of the children of Israel when leaving Egypt for Canaan.
Amos insinuated that the Thursday judgment looked like a procured judgment while questioning the relationship between the judge and Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in the state.
He stated that prior to the judgment, the APC governorship candidate, David Lyon, had been endorsed by groups and individuals including ordinary men, women and youth across the state owing to his selfless services to the people.
The party chairman said there was a better Bayelsa ahead for the people and that “the needful has been done. Come out en masse and vote. We must take this state to a platform of sustainable development. We must take this state to a platform where we not only have electricity.”
According to him, the party campaigns had shown the love that the people have for Lyon explaining that they were enthused at how the party flag bearer helped their children out of drug addiction, criminality and other vices.
Amos, therefore, enjoined the media to help inform the state and people that APC was ready for the governorship election as the processes at the various courts are ongoing expressing hope that the judgments would be vacated at higher courts.
He said there was no doubt on their minds that the judgments came to weaken the resolve of the people to change the narrative in the state to ensure that development took centre stage across the state.
