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The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva has repaired a faulty transformer which has plunged Kaiama community into darkness for several months.
Kaiama is the headquarters of Kolokuma/ Opokuma Local Government, the home local government of Sylva’s main opponent and incumbent governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri.
An erstwhile aide to Diri and the House of Assembly candidate, Constituency 1, under the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA) in the 2023 Assembly elections in Bayelsa, Dr. Souyo Appah disclosed this during a grand event where he was formally received into the APC by Sylva.
Sylva in his brief speech while thanking the APC family in Kaiama for the warm reception, welcomed Appah, the largest party in Africa.
He told the teeming crowd of supporters that he was aware that Kiaama town has been without power for a long while, due to defaults in the transformer and assured them that the needful has been done.
Appah, who defected with hundreds of APGA members, in his speech, thanked Chief Timipre Sylva for welcoming him to APC.
Souyo said he took his time for painstaking research and the results revealed that Chief Timipre Sylva, as governor, impacted more in the lives of the youths in Bayelsa than others.
He corroborated Sylva’s claim over the repair of the transformer and informed the people of Kaiama, that the cost of fixing the transformer responsible for the power failure in the town, has been paid in full by Sylva and the process of repair will be swift and will commence immediately.
Meanwhile, the APC is upbeat about its suit at the Appeal Court seeking to upturn a Federal High Court ruling which disqualified Sylva from contesting.
The Chairman of the party in the state, Mr Dennis Otiotio who spoke ahead of the case slated for today, expressed confidence that the Court of Appeal would set aside the judgment of the lower Court.
Otiotio who insisted that there is no cause for alarm explained that the law is on the side of the APC with the party set to secure victory.
He expressed disappointment that rather than campaign and tell Bayelsans its developmental plans and projects, Diri is busy moving from one courtroom to the other in the bid to get victory through the backdoor.
Otiotio noted thatDiri and PDP are already jittery and have resorted to desperate means to frustrate Sylva and APC from contesting the election.
