Tell me my sins, Gov. Sylva asks PDP Chairman

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News Monday, November 21st, 2011

Embattled Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva has challenged the national leadership of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, [PDP] to disclose the sins he committed which informed his exclusion from the governorship primary conducted by the party at the weekend.

Addressing journalists in Lagos at the weekend, acting national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje had declared that the Bayelsa governor was excluded from the race because of his sins which would soon be disclosed in due course.

Reacting to the report in a statement signed by his chief Press Secretary, Doifie Ola, entitled, ‘Bayelsa shall witness daybreak’ the governor submitted that there was no valid reason for his exclusion . He further challenged the national leadership of the party “to come clean on these ‘sins’, perhaps, for necessary ‘atonement’.

He noted that by his declaration the national chairman ‘’has exposed the fact that there was no reason known to law and commonsense for the exclusion of the governor’’.

The statement reads:
“In response to media reports in which the Acting National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, was quoted as alleging that the Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, had been told the reasons he was excluded from the governorship primary and that such ‘sins’ would be made public in due course, the governor challenges Baraje to come clean on these ‘sins’, perhaps, for necessary ‘atonement’.
For the avoidance of doubt, Sylva says at no time did Baraje discuss the so-called sins with him. We are aware that the PDP national chairman has been giving different ‘reasons’ to different people on the illegal exclusion of the governor. But at last, Baraje has exposed the fact that there was no reason known to law and commonsense for the exclusion of the governor.

“With Baraje’s tone of voice, we fear that after having excluded Governor Sylva without any justification, there is now a desperate attempt to cook up reasons, how ever untenable and tenuous, as an afterthought.
Governor Sylva feels it is saddening that PDP is descending to this level and believes they are up to something sinister. Sylva has served the PDP and the people of Bayelsa State creditably well. So, it is for the people of Bayelsa State to reject him at the poll if they do not want him as their governor anymore.”wp_posts