Attempts by the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship flag bearer in Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, to have audience with President Muhammadu Buhari may have been shunned. Vanguard reports.
A source close to the Presidency stated that Buhari was enraged with the APC in Bayelsa and the governorship candidate, Sylva over alleged reports of violence and electoral malpractices during the rescheduled election in Southern Ijaw LGA.
”Mr. President is angry over the overwhelming criticism and condemnation of the process by international observers, who did not mince words in describing the poll as a rape of democracy.
“Some of the observers are already seeing the APC-led Federal Government as lacking the capacity to conduct a free, fair and credible election in a state as small as Bayelsa. What happened in Southern Ijaw was against every acceptable global democratic norm and practice.” The source stated.
Bayelsa State Resident Electoral Commissioner,( REC), Mr. Baritor Kpagih, on Monday, December 7 canceled the gubernatorial election in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state following allegations of irregularities and violence,rendering it inconclusive.
The election has been suspended indefinitely.
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