A former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Yekini Nabena, has said that media reports suggesting that the Minister of State for Petroleum, Heineken Lokpobiri, and 2019 governorship candidate, David Lyon, had formed alliance with Governor Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the November 11 for the governorship election was mere propaganda.
Nabena, who is the Secretary, Media and Publicity Committee of the National Gubernatorial Campaign Council for Bayelsa state insisted that the propaganda tactics being employed by the PDP camp in Bayelsa towards the governorship election would not work because people have made up their minds to sack the PDP administration for underdeveloping the state.
He insisted that all suggestions of a crack in the camp of the candidate of APC in Bayelsa was a ruse.
Nabena in a statement issued on Monday described the report as a propaganda sponsored by the PDP camp to cause disaffection within the APC
He said: “Our attention has been drawn to a sponsored propaganda in some quarters suggesting cracks in the solid camp of the Bayelsa APC ahead of the November 11 governorship election in the State.
“We will not be distracted because we are fully aware how desperate the incumbent governor Douye Diri has become, therefore employing all manners of tactics including propaganda and lies just to cause confusion but sadly for the PDP, it is just too late because Bayelsans have made up their minds to sack under-developer of a oil rich state.”
“For the benefit of doubt, the attached pictures will tell doubters that the Minister of State for Petroleum (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, and the 2019 governorship candidate, David Lyon, most recently held a strategic meeting with our candidate in the presence of our National Chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, where everyone recommitted themselves and massive mobilisation has since began.
“We, however, sympathise with the restless Governor Diri and his camp for acting too late, bearing in mind that their days are numbered in the Bayelsa state government House.”