Bayelsa State Chapter of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, has given reasons why it suspended former governor
of the state and it’s candidate at the last gubernatorial election Chief
Timipre Sylva, from the party.
The state Chairman of the APC,
Timipa Tiwei Orunimighe, and Secretary, Daniel Marlin, announced the decision
of the party in a statement in Abuja.
“After due consultations with
relevant stakeholders and elders in the state, the Bayelsa State Executive
Committee, at an emergency meeting, today, took the painful but necessary
decision to suspend our gubernatorial flag bearer in the 2015 elections, Chief
Timipre Sylva, pending the investigation of the following cases brought against
him.
We have it on good record Timipre
Sylva, last week Tuesday precisely, paid a visit to one of the South-South
governors of the PDP; this is just one of the correspondences between them and
we find it grossly unbecoming.
This is in direct breach of Article
21, under ‘Offences’ in the party’s Constitution which states in Section 2,
‘Anti-Party activities or any conduct, which is likely to embarrass or have
adverse effect on the party or bring the party into hatred, contempt, ridicule
or disrepute is punishable. “Attempts to form a parallel executive.
This is in complete defiance of
Article 21, under offences which states, factionalization or creating parallel
party organs at any level’ is punishable”.
The party also announced the
suspension of the senatorial vice chairman, Bayelsa Central, Joseph Fafi,
Edison Sogwe, its Publicity Secretary, Panebi Fortune and Organizing Secretary,
Tonye Okio. The statement accused them of conniving with Sylva in an attempt to
destabilize its structure and publishing an illegal statement on behalf of the
party.
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