The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming election in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, has alleged that a senior officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission is working for the Peoples Democratic in the state.
The former governor who made the allegation on Friday in a statement by his campaign outfit, the Sylva-Igiri Campaign Organisation, said that he had been inundated with calls and reports that a particular senior member of the commission in the state headquarters is a PDP agent.
“This is because of the role the ranking official played in the last Presidential, National Assembly and House of Assembly elections, working closely with appointees of Governor Seriake Dickson.
“While our campaign organisation is irrevocably committed to ensuring peaceful and credible poll, the electoral body must also purge some of its staff and personnel who are believed to be showing sympathy to the ruling party in the state.”
Sylva, therefore, urged INEC to follow the laid down rules in the accreditation of election monitors and observers for the December 5 governorship election in the state. He said his observation followed the purported public endorsement of Dickson for another term by over 400 non-governmental organisations in the state.
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