Guber ticket splits Bayelsa APC

There is crisis in Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), no thanks to the governorship ticket for the December 5 election.
To avoid a breakdown of law and order, one of the leaders of the party in the South-South state, Chief Francis Perekeme Abadi, has called on the national leadership to take urgent steps to check what he described as the “excesses of some governorship aspirants” or else, the party will lose the election to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Abadi is a loyalist of one of the governorship aspirants, Timi Alaibe.
It is believed the state chairman, Chief Tiwe Orunimigha, has endorsed the aspiration of former Governor Timipre Sylva.
The general thinking now is that Orunimigha is keeping the delegates’ list to favour Sylva during the primaries.
Abadi warned that should the party fail to checkmate Orunimigha’s manipulative tendencies, “there will be an implosion “which would rubbish all party leaders have laboured for over time”.
He stated: “This warning is coming against the backdrop of glaring division and needless bickering amongst the various aspirants and their supporters over the purported hijack of delegates’ list by former governor, Timipre Sylva. It is unfair for our chairman to show clear bias by supporting a particular aspirant and handing over the delegates’ list to him as a favoured aspirant. This is worrisome when it is clear that his favoured aspirant stands no chance of winning in any election, given the fact that he has loads of political and criminal baggage to contend with”.
Abadi’s declared that the moment Sylva emerges as the flagbearer, the party may collapse because of what he said would amount to “contradiction of interest and purpose”.