APC Stockpiling Arms, Recruiting Cultists For Bayelsa Poll - Ijaw Youths Allege

Posted by George on Fri 16th Oct, 2015 - tori.ng

Chief Timipre Sylva who is the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC has been accused of recruiting cultists and other miscreants for the purpose of disrupting the peaceful conduct of the December 5 elections in Bayelas state.

APC gubernatorial candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva

A socio-political organisation, Ijaw Youths Democratic Association (IYDI), has raised the alarm that the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State is allegedly stockpiling weapons and recruiting cultists with a view to unleashing mayhem on innocent citizens to rig the December 5 governorship election in its favour according to the DailyIndependent.

The group also claimed that APC was plotting to use violence, intimidation and various federal agencies, including security personnel, to rig the election.

The IYDI, in a statement on Thursday by its President, Ebifagha Timothy, and Secretary-General, Tilly Ekaunkumo, stated that the APC and its candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, were neither campaigning nor setting up any machineries in motion, as a party about to go into an election as close as December 5.

The organisation alleged that the state APC was busy recruiting cultists from outside the South-South state, who are already attacking and kidnapping innocent Bayelsans, while security positions are also being attacked, with arms being carted away to create an arms base for the cultists, preparatory to executing their plans of rigging the elections.

The Ijaw Youths Democratic Association said the intention of the APC is to carry out massive rigging of the polls, using the armed cultists and force the election umpire to announce the results in their favour, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) goes to court.