The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State has described as spurious, totally false and misleading, comments made by Senator Heineken Lokpobiri on the conduct of the PDP senatorial primary for Bayelsa West Senatorial District.
The party said that the statement by Lokpobiri at his Tuesday’s press conference did not represent the true position of events at the primary election held at the auditorium of the administrative block of the Isaac Boro College of Education, Sagbama, last Sunday.
The party said it took exception to the claim that the primary election was inconclusive just as it condemned his illegal action of holding a kangaroo election elsewhere, pleading to be considered as an option and indeed that he won.
The party said that Lokpobiri’s comment can only be in “his wild imagination and he should know that there is a process in a democracy and importantly that the wishes of the majority will usually prevail.”
“For the record, the Bayelsa West Senatorial District primary was held in accordance with the party guidelines and the processes were followed. Contrary to his fabricated comments, the election was successfully held and a winner emerged in the person of Evangelist Foster Ogola.
“His other co-contestants namely, Chief Ayakeme Whiskey and Dr. (Mrs) Stella Dorgu were present and had also in their separate speeches okayed the outcome of the primary because it was free and fair.
“Nothing could have been farther from the truth for Senator Heineken Lokpobiri to have curiously and illogically stated that :”after I insisted that the accreditation was supposed to be ongoing at that time, there was pandemonium, the governor left and others including the person purportedly collating the results scampered out of the venue.”
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