One of the governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Ebitimi Amgbare, has said that it was difficult to trust the party’s State Excos based on their activities prior to the controversial governorship primaries in the state.
Mr Amgbare was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Monday.
He explained that prior to the election, all the aspirants had agreed on the way they wanted the process to run, which included means of accreditation and identification of delegates.
But very early on the day, they saw that there was going to be a problem because “a lot of people who had no reason to be within the arena had found their ways into the arena.
“The State Exco, of course from the onset we knew they were playing the script of an aspirant. They set up a parallel accreditation committee and gave all manner of tags to people.
“For us we thought it was just going to be a business of delegates, agents and officials.”
He went further, “There was no reason to trust them because they descended to the arena, they became active participants, they were campaign managers of a particular aspirant. So it was clear that they were going to be partisan.”
He provided his account of what transpired at the venue of the primary election which has led to accusations between Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole and one of the aspirants, who is also a former Governor of the state, Timipre Sylva.
Amgbare believes that Governor Adams Oshiomhole who was the Chairman of the Election Committee did the right thing by calling for the cancellation of the election as it was indeed marred by irregularities.