BAYELSA GUBER: I’m still contesting, ignore PDP antics, APC candidate shrugs off disqualification

Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa, David Lyon, has declared that he would still participate in the November 16 election in the state.

According to Lyon, the Court of Appeal has asked all parties to return to the status quo.

Ripples Nigeria had earlier reported that a Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa disqualified Lyon, and also held that the APC could not field candidates in Saturday’s governorship election.

Just two days earlier, a Federal High Court in Abuja also disqualified the state deputy governorship candidate of the APC, Biobarakuma Degi, from participating in the poll.

But Lyon, speaking on Thursday through the Alternate Director General of his campaign organization, Seyefa Brisibe, asked the people not to be deterred by antics of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

He called on Bayelsans to come out on Saturday to vote massively for the APC.

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Describing the ruling as a procured judgement, Brisibe urged Bayelsans not to panic but go ahead to vote the APC and its candidate during the Saturday governorship election.

He said: “Let me use this opportunity to let all Bayelsans and our teaming supporters know that there is no cause for alarm. Our candidates, Chief David Lyon and Bishop Degi Eremienyo are fully, squarely on the ballot.

“This is because, we, as law abiding citizens, have done what is proper, judicious and procedural to see that that judgement does not stand.

“I want to appeal to all Bayelsans in the remotest areas, which our next governor stands for, to come out enmass to vote the APC come November 16.”

Brisibe noted that all through the campaign across the state, the APC candidate enjoyed massive acceptance from the electorate following their love for him as a result of his philanthropic work.

He said it was clear that the opposition was jittery over the swelling popularity of the APC candidate whom he said was coming to liberate Bayelsans from the shackles of poverty created by the outgoing government.

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