An elder statesman of the All Progressives Congress chapter in Bayelsa state, John Brambaifa, has declared that the Peoples Democratic Party will lose the December 5 governorship election in the state due to the unpopularity of former president Goodluck Jonathan.
Mr. Brambaifa, who said this while speaking to reporters, alleged that Jonathan was unpopular even when he was picked as vice president in 2007.
Goodluck Jonathan
He declared that Jonathan’s poor showing in the hot seat has also added to his low popularity among his people.
“I can tell you categorically that the former president from my assessment is not popular now and he was not that popular when he was even the president,” he said.
He noted that Jonathan was not the people’s choice but was imposed on the people of the South South region.
“If it were the people of Bayelsa or the people of the South-south that would have picked a vice president at the time, I don’t think the people would have picked Goodluck Jonathan because he was not popular and he didn’t have the capacity to be vice president at the time he was imposed, If we are saying that PDP is not popular in Bayelsa state, the unpopularity and the inability to perform maximally when Jonathan was the president is likely to contribute to the unpopularity of the PDP as at now,” he said.
He then went on to blast the current governor of the state, Seriake Dickson, saying the governor did not complete and commission a single project since his election in 2012.
“The performance of a governor is a function of how many projects he commissioned at a given time, is that not so?” Mr. Braambaifa asked, adding that: “You want to go to Bayelsa for the three and half years that this man has been the governor? There is no one project, not one that has been commissioned, not one. I am not saying that he didn’t put his hands in doing one or two projects but it is a functions of how many project you commission that will determine you as a performing governor.”
The former Senator also announced that the PDP had misruled the nation and was cut off as the nations population wanted change.
He then made the bold declaration that the APC is expected to receive about 15,000 defectors across the state before the poll.
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