The former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 Governorship elections in Bayelsa State, Chief David Lyon, may defect to the Labour Party (LP ) or the All Progressives Grand Alliance ( APGA) if he does not secure the party’s ticket for the November governorship elections this year.
According to impeccable sources close the Ologbobiri – born politician, if he is not given the right of first refusal by the ruling party, he and his teaming supporters may be forced to move to the Labour party or APGA.
Pundits are saying that it will be absolutely difficult for him to secure the APC ticket this time around taking into cognizance the calibre of personalities jostling for the governorship ticket of the party in the state, especially the presence of current Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timpere Sylva.
Sylva, who is the leader of the party in the state .In a media chat with journalists in Yenagoa had stated that though he was still consulting, but asserted that he had garnered enough experience and much exposure to govern the state which is yearning for development.
“As a kingmaker, there is nothing wrong for me to become a king if the people say so,” he said.
As at the time of filing this report, the screening exercise for APC aspirants to the number one position in Bayelsa state is ongoing at the party’s national secretariat, Abuja while the primary elections comes up on April 14 this year .
However our sources disclosed that Lyon and his team might leave if he does not secure the party’s ticket.
The sources also disclosed that Lyon is in talks with officials of the LP and APGA in case he fails to get the nod of the party to fly its flag in the November election.
The aspirants who have bought forms for the Governorship race in the APC for the November 11 elections in Bayelsa state include Prof. Ongoebi Etebu Maureen, Chief Joshua Machaiva, David Lyon, Barr. Festus Daumiebi, Chief Mrs. Ogbomade Isikima Johnson and Chief Timipre Marlin Sylva.
It could be recalled that Chief Lyon contested the 2019 governorship election and won but was thrown out by the Supreme Court as a result of variant of names in the certificates of his
Deputy, Chief Degi Eremieyo who is a current senator at the Red Chambers and was defeated by the People’s Democratic Party’s candidate for the Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Chief Benson Agadaga in the just concluded national assembly election .
Senator Degi Eremienyio who wanted to go against a single tenure age long established principle in the Bayelsa East Senatorial District was overwhelmingly trounced by Chief Benson Agadaga,
Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri is the sole Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the state’s off-season governorship election scheduled to hold on November 11.
In a similar development, Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shuaibu, who announced Governor Diri as the sole aspirant, said the governor’s documents had been scrutinized and were found to be in order.
Shuaibu, who is the chairman of the screening committee for the Bayelsa State Governorship Election, announced this last Tuesday after the screening at the PDP national secretariat in Abuja.
Efforts to hear from Chief Lyon on his planned moves to dump the APC met a brick wall as his mobile phone was busy.
