Someone says GEJ won’t get 25 per cent of Bayelsa votes – guess who

by Iyobosa Omoregie

President Goodluck Jonathan can’t be too pleased about the comments of a former associate of his who says he will struggle to get 25 per cent of the votes from his state.

Timipreye Sylva, a former governor of Bayelsa State governor, believes that the president will perform woefully at next month’s presidential election.

He made the comments on Sunday, February 1, at a press briefing in Abuja, noting that the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari would get more votes in the state than the president.

The briefing was used to formally welcome a former health commissioner in the state, Chief Frank Akpoebi, who defected from the PDP about three weeks ago.

According to the former governor, Jonathan had disappointed the people by failing to tackle the problems bedeviling the state and the country in the six years he spent as president.

Timipreye said: “We have gotten to a place where our presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari will win overwhelmingly in Bayelsa State and President Jonathan might only be looking for 25 per cent in his own state. We know that, but we also know more than you the product, the person that he also is.”

Comments (2)

  1. WE DID IT 4 YEARS AGO – NIGERIA LET’S DO IT AGAIN.

    When President Goodluck Jonathan became president he was quickly confronted with an unexpected rise in insurgency funded by the very same people who did not want him to succeed and who would turn around and use this to assess his performance or lack thereof.
    The president had to deal with saboteurs both within and outside and his government, how can you win this type of war waged on the basis of who you are and where you come from? Things that the president is not responsible for and cannot change. How can you win a war that has primarily turned to into an ethnic and religious one? All over the world the war against terrorism has taken many years to fight and still the end does not seem to be in sight.
    Despite all those odds President Jonathan has made formidable strides in all other sectors. Today, Nigeria is the number one economy in Africa and one of the fastest growing economies in the world. This is to the eternal shame of those actively trying to destabilize the country, and afterwards declare the President incompetent.

    Jonathan took on corruption in fertiliser and seed distribution, ending four decades of corruption in the sector and saving the government over N25billion in 2012 alone. Through his transformation in Agriculture he reduced food import bill from N1.1trillion in 2011 to N648billion in 2012. The road networks are being rehabilitated, railways have been resuscitated. Although there is still more work to be done there has been real progress in the last four years.
    We have gone too far to turn back now. Vote Jonathan to keep us moving forward.

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