The governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the Saturday poll in Bayelsa, Senator Duoye Diri, has urged the electorate to not waste their votes for the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate due to the Federal High Court ruling nullifying the September 4 primaries that produced the APC candidate.
Senator Diri told journalists on Thursday evening that “now that it is clear that the APC did not have a candidate, the entire people of the state should not waste their votes on the APC.”
Diri noted that since the names on the ballot could not be altered, the voters in the state should ignore the APC column in the ballot.
“Trusting God, we filed a case against the Deputy Governor of the APC who has been disqualified by the court and that means that as a joint ticket, APC has no candidate.
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“Not only that , just today, this was a case between APC and APC. Arising from the primaries, the matter has been on and it is now nullified to cement the earlier court ruling.
“The INEC has said that they cannot undo the ballot that has been printed, but that any vote for the APC is invalid and wasted and that is the position.
“As we go to the polls on Saturday, the APC has no candidate. Therefore, we want to use this opportunity that the PDP which is the party that has a credible platform, even when they are killed is the only party in Bayelsa” he said.
Meanwhile, speaking separately with journalists almost after that of the PDP candidate, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, disclosed that an Appeal Court in Abuja has ordered a stay of execution of the rule by the Federal High Court.
Sylva, during the press conference, urged the electorate to disregard the earlier ruling and come out en mass to vote out the PDP come Saturday.
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