Bayelsa Guber : LP Refutes Alledged Support For Gov Diri

Edited By Georgina Humphrey

Labour Party has described as untrue the news making the rounds that its Bayelsa State chapter has ditched its governorship candidate in the November 11, election, Udengs Eradiri and declared support for Governor, Douye Diri.

A statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, says the party’s attention was also drawn to a statement issued by some unauthorized party leaders without the consent of the State Chairman and Secretary who supposedly withheld their individual support for Labour Party candidate.

“We sincerely do believe that all these issues are clearly a manifestation of political intrigues and clearly an attempt by the opposition to frustrate our chances at achieving victory
at the polls” Ifoh adds.

“Our preliminary investigation on the allegation of financial compromise by the state chapter clearly shows that the alarm was false and has remained one of the age long tools often deployed by political opponents to have an edge over candidates who are the favourites of the people”.

The statement explains that no party official from the national headquarters has entered into any deal with the Bayelsa State Governor to compromise the election.

“We are in this race to win and we are sure that no amount of dirty politicking can stop the Labour Party and its candidate, a former President of the Ijaw Youth Council, Comrade Eradiri from winning the election” .

“Comrade Eradiri is young, popular, experienced and with track record of performance at the highest level, his zeal to change the socio economic status of Bayelsa is unimaginable and unprecedented” the party’s National Publicity notes.

“We therefore believe that the unfounded rumour is being orchestrated by our political opponents. We also use this opportunity to call on our candidate, Eradiri to be focused and not to be distracted from the goals before him. He must ensure that the entire party structure is put into maximal use to achieve the needed success.

The statement therefore calls on the people of Bayelsa state to disregard the rumours and support its candidate in the November 11 election.

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