How former President Goodluck Jonathan’s men bungled the Bayelsa State gubernatorial election has been revealed, with alleged plans to do same in Rivers State, Vanguard News reported
The Bayelsa poll was seen as an opportunity to get a platform to ‘teach’ the APC a lesson.
According to a source, the whole idea was hatched by ex-militant leaders who have been beneficiaries of the former president and have been de-robed of what some persons described as their larger than life posture, and no more influence at the centre, just as it was said that a very influential ex- militant who was very powerful then and now being hunted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC was involved, with his accounts frozen by the Federal Government over alleged financial dealings with links to some past officials of the government who are now under watch and one of them now undergoing trial.
The source noted that a deadlier scenario might play out in Rivers State once the governor’s appeal is lost and a fresh election ordered to hold and the implication would be a looming fresh Niger Delta struggle that might deplete the nation’s economy.
According to the source, one of them, a former Special Adviser was yet to honour an EFCC summon, in abroad on medical grounds, but the government was on his trail to a neighbouring West African nation where he was said to have donated handsomely to the election project of the incumbent president.
The propaganda being peddled has been that APC was anti-Ijaw and that explains why the federal government was going after Ijaws who served under Jonathan, however, the real truth is the loss of influence and the issue of the frozen accounts and the investigation of allies of the leader of ex- militants..
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