A few hours after the court of Appeal in Abuja decided to restore Chief Timipre Sylva as governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Bayelsa State,South South Coordinator of The Asiwaju Group, Pastor Reuben Wilson, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to mobilise full support for the election of Sylva.
He said in a statement that it was time for the all APC leaders, including the Minister of State for Petroleum, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, to be in Bayelsa State for full campaigns.
Wilson lamented that the Minister was yet to show signs of support for Sylva and the only way to prove critics wrong was for him to join Tinubu and other APC leaders in campaigning for the party in the next few days for the success of the APC.
Anything short of that, Wilson said, should attract the wrath of the President.
According to him: “Yesterday, in my open letter to Mr President, I had called for his gracious intervention as leader of our party, to make sure the APC wins next weekend in Bayelsa State.
“I will re-echo that call by urging him to summon a meeting of all gladiators and stakeholders from Bayelsa State APC, including the minister of state for petroleum, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, who has not shown any form of commitment to the Sylva election project up till now.
“Instead of being committed to the project, he is seen to be hobnobbing with our opponents while also patronising and supporting those who never supported the APC in the past elections. I insist that the position Senator Lokpobiri is occupying should be taken from him and given to those who have shown capacity and total commitment to the progress of the party in Bayelsa State.
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“The general suspicion is that Senator Lokpobiri and many others like him, are working at cross purposes, against the interest of the party. This cannot be allowed to continue unchecked, if the party must win the forthcoming election. There cannot be a better time for all party members to sink their differences and come out in full force to queue behind Sylva.
“With a few more weeks left before the public campaign window closes, I will want our national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the national executive committee of the party to come to Yenagoa and personally campaign for the APC.
“They should also ensure that Lokpobiri and other top party chieftains mount the rostrum and publicly campaign for Sylva. The current lack-lustre attitude of these party stakeholders is not in the interest of our party.”
He commended the judiciary for the boldness to do justice to the case and restore Sylva to the ballot, saying that he was confident of victory for the APC in November 11.