Sylva, Others Shun Heineken Lokpobiri declaration For Gov., Opening Of Campaign Office

By Amos Okioma
The leader of the All Progressive Congress in Bayelsa state, Chief Timipere Sylva , Werinipre Seibarugu, Nestor Binabor and other prominent members of the party were conspicuously absent at the formal declaration and opening of the campaign office of Senator Heineken Lokpobiri gubernatorial ambition in Yenagoa.
However former minister of Agriculture and Natural resources ,Chief Audu Ogbe, Amb senator Felix Oboro, Chief KD Francis, Chief Abel Ebifemowei, Godknows Powell, Eddy Julius, Chief Livingstone Egba, Okio a were among prominent guests at the epochal event.
Declaring his ambition, senator Heineken Lokpobiri , immediate past minister of state for Agriculture said having served as pioneer speaker of Bayelsa state House of Assembly, two term senator and minister of the federal republic of Nigeria, he considered himself eminently qualified to rescue Bayelsa state from inept administration.
“In Bayelsa state the level of poverty and hunger is unprecedented. It is the darkest state in Africa ” he said.
According to him due to lack of vision and ideas by the present PDP led government, Bayelsa despite its monthly allocation of 14 billion naira, it remained the poorest , most backward state in infrastructural development and its only APC government under him that would restore the past glory of the slogan glory of all lands.
He decried the insecurity, hunger and poverty that have been inflicted on Bayelsans of late and called on them to vote him into Creek Haven as the next governor who will develop Bayelsa economy beyond oil.
Earlier, Chief Audu Ogbe had eulogized Heneiken Lokpobiri as an epitome of knowledge and wisdom with the requisite experience to govern Bayelsa state and appealed to APC and others to rally round him in actualising his ambition .
In their good will messages, Senator Felix Oboro, Chief KD Francis and Alhaji Shamba called every Bayelsan and all non indigenes to vote for senator Heneiken Lokpobiri.

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