Nigeria has witnessed what has been the most controversial democratic era since the emergence of Democracy in 1999. Backtrack to over 20 months ago, the political scene in Nigeria was much more stable, people knew what party they were aligned with and who they wanted to vote for in the then upcoming elections. Then came the fall out between then President and a South-South Governor which birthed what is easily considered the biggest political fallout in Nigeria. The effect of this fall out is what boosted the popularity of the political party now called All Progressives Congress (APC) which is a merger of ACN, CPC, ANPP.

Forward to Current times, the Peoples Democratic Party, which was the Political party of the then ruling president lost to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress during the presidential election, and similarly PDP lost several states to APC.
In Bayelsa, the gubernatorial election does not take place until December 2015 unlike most states who already had their elections in April 2015. The current Governor of Bayelsa, Seriake Dickson is seeking a rerun as the Governor of the state under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Bayelsa, a state in Southern Nigeria was created on 1st October 1999. Bayelsa State has one of the largest natural gas and crude oil deposits in Nigeria. Past leaders of the state have left the people of state very unhappy with the bad conditions they left the state in despite the huge allocation sum the state gets monthly. The people of Bayelsa are about to make that mistake again should they vote in Timipre Sylva who is contesting under the APC platform for Governor of the state.

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Former Governor Sylvia earlier this year had a 50-point corruption leveled against him by the EFCC

Timipre Sylva, One time Governor of Bayelsa state has the records of a person who should not walk freely on the streets of Nigeria but for reasons best known to the High Court and EFCC they have let him live freely.

What do we know about Timipre Sylva?

Procured a 60 billion Naira loan from Oceanic Bank PLC without approval of the state executive council and the Bayelsa State House of Assembly.
Procured 75 billion Naira loan without the approval of the State Executive Council and the Bayelsa State House of Assembly.
Procured a 6 billion Naira loan form Bank PHB without the approval of the State Executive Council and the Bayelsa State House of Assembly.
Procured a 4 billion Naira loan from Equatorial Trust Bank without the approval of the State Executive Council and the Bayelsa State House of Assembly.
Bribed the members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly with 2.6 billion Naira to secure a post-procurement approval for the bank loans.
Arbitrary proscription of the Bayelsa State College of Arts and Science and creating a wasteland out of the veritable institution.
Abysmal implementation of the 2008 appropriation law.
Abysmal implementation of the 2009 appropriation law.
Blunt refusal to conduct the local government elections since assumption of office in 2007.
Abduction, imprisonment and torture of a journalist.
Fraudulent transfer of 40 million dollars to a docile account of the Bayelsa State Oil- Company with the intention of transferring the funds into private accounts.
Open endorsement of acts of embezzlement and corrupt enrichment by political appointees by commissioning personal projects built with questionable sums.
Gross immaturity and arrogance in the discharge of the functions of the executive governor of the state.
Award of road contracts at outrageous sums—a total of approximately 30 km of roads at 75 billion Naira (2.5 billion Naira per km) which were even poorly constructed because of huge kickbacks.
Awards of an over-inflated 7 billion Naira contract for the renovation of Opolo Health Centre.
Initiating and execution of a sinister plot to assassinate his erstwhile Special Adviser on Enlightenment , Famous Daunimighan who has now relocated to Abuja.
Initiating and execution of a sinister plot to assassinate the former PDP chairman of the State, Chief Fred Agbedi.
Fraudulent diversion of 27 billion Naira excess crude of April 2008 to the May 2008 re-run gubernatorial election.
Direct disbursement of the constituency funds to the members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly instead of awarding the contracts to competent companies to execute the projects.
Diversion of public funds to an inglorious birthday party.
uring the APC Bayelsa rDally which held on the 15th August 2015 at the Samson Siasia stadium, Sylva assured the people of Bayelsa that he will do better and eliminate poverty from the state. Funny how this comes a man who left Bayelsa owing a sum of 242 billion Naira and was not able to care for the state nor his people when he had the opportunity to do so.


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