A chieftain of the opposition All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa, the home state of the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan, John Brambaifa, has stated that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party will lose the December 5 governorship election in the state due to the unpopularity of Mr. Jonathan.

Speaking with reporters on Tuesday at the national secretariat of the APC in Abuja, Mr. Brambaifa said Mr. Jonathan was unpopular even when he was picked as vice president in 2007.
Mr. Brambaifa said the former president’s poor performance while in office has 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 also said Mr. Jonathan was not popular because he 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,” he said.
Mr. Brambaifa, a former Senator, said Mr. Jonathan’s unpopularity was proven by his inability to win a second term in office.

“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.
Dickson, a failure

Mr. Brambaifa also came down hard on the governor of Bayelsa state, Seriake Dickson, saying the governor did not complete and commission a single project since his election in 2012.
The APC chieftain challenged Dickson, to tell the people of the state what he has achieved since his assumption of office.

“The performance of a governor is a function of how many projects he commissioned at a given time, is that not so?” Mr. Braambaifa said. “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.”
Mr. Brambaifa said the PDP as a party was a victim of Nigerians demand for change after 16 years of “misrule”.

“I think that there is a wind of change in the country and the wind of change has caught up with the PDP as a result of poor performance of PDP government,” he said. “You know the masses can take it, but they cannot take it forever, when they take it to certain point they will revolt.”

Mr. Brambaifa said he was in Abuja as part of the preparations for the election in Bayelsa state. He also said the APC is expected to receive about 15,000 defectors across the state before the election.

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Ok

Chai! Nna, odikwa finishing!

Better truth!

Wud u ve said diz if e won d election.........NO

OKAY

Na now you wake up?
He was deputy governor and became governor.
He was vice president and became president.
Its after he lost his second coming as president that you realized he was unpopular.

But the people of Bayelsa picked him as governor.

This man is a fool!despite the benefit of south/south during GEJ?ingrate ll remain ingrate

Lol. Election season in bayelsa. Why didn't he say this when GEJ was president? But seriously, he has some point and Dickson didn't even perform well for Bayelsans. Yet PDP will win Bayelsa. All of una no be Jonathan problem now, him problem na Buhari and probing. I hope he scales through.

Open secret in the creeks.
Jonathan was a disappointment

I remembered Edwin Clerk said this to the former president OBJ. But this shouldn't stop them from telling the clueless one the truth after all said and done! !!

Jonathan you see your life.

The APC have once again shot themselves in the foot. They have decided to sponsor and fund people who live in an Ivory tower because they are consumed by hate.The politics played in Nigeria is not about numbers prior to elections, but about numbers on the day of the election. Mobilisation is key on the day of elections. Also its important to check the mood of a people before throwing money at them. This is what Amaechi failed to realise and also what the Bayelsa APC have just erred on. The people of the south south are right now loathing with anger concerning the past elections. They do not see any other party representing them but the PDP. On that day no army or force on this green earth will stop them from giving the rivers APC a royal thrashing. A word they say is enough for the wise.

Mr brambaifa I don't even know u bcoz u r not even popular. are a musician or comedian plz?