Bayelsa Ward Chairmen Demand Appointments Reversal

Ward chairmen from the
Bayelsa State chapter of the  All Progressives Congress(APC) last Wednesday besieged the national headquarters of their party in Abuja to demand a reversal of all political appointments allegedly influenced by a former governor of the state, Timipre Sylva.
The chairmen demanded that Mr. Sylva should reverse all appointments he influenced through the federal appointment quota allotted to the Bayelsa State.
The protesting chairmen carried placards with various inscriptions including,  “Lokpobiri must go” among others. They were, however, denied entry into the party’s secretariat.
Jeptha Iyekuruwe, who led the aggrieved Chairmen to the venue, told journalists, that they were protesting over how appointments were wrongly shared by the governorship candidate of the party, Chief Sylva
According to him, “Five executive chances were given to APC Bayelsa state in order to strengthen  party because for now we don’t have a governor to take care of the party and by the special grace of God, presidency through the national secretariat gave this five executive chances to Bayelsa state, but at the end of the day our governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva cornered all of them, used his own letter-headed paper and sent five names without consulting the state executive, led by Chief Timipa Tiwe’s administration.
“So based on that, as ward chairmen of Bayelsa state APC, we have laboured, from inception of the party,  we were tagged the Boko Haram party and supporters of Boko Haram party by some of the PDP people because then the President of Nigeria was from Bayelsa State.