Foremost pressure group, "Niger Delta Media Activists" Group has exonerated the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Allegation, Dr. Betta Edu of any involvement in the reported allegation of diverted N585,198,500 funds of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA).
Views: Visits 6 A Chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa, Chief Izzi Yakiah, has said that there is no crisis within the party in the state. Yakiah, who is also the National Coordinator, Niger Delta Activist Group and Excellent Leadership Foundation, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Yenagoa. He said that the Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, has proven himself as a credible leader, saying that aside accommodating all party members, he had also attracted more development to the state. The APC chieftain said that with Sylva’s leadership style, the party was more united now than before.
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Bayelsa APC united, strong under Sylva’s leadership, says Yakiah, state party chieftain
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By Emem Idio – Yenagoa
AGAINST the backdrop of the emergence of a faction within the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State, a party stalwart, Chief Izzi Yakiah, has maintained that the party is still united and strong under the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Chief Timipre Sylva as leader of the party in the state.
He said it was unfortunate that few individuals who have benefited from the party would choose to deliberately forment trouble in the party because of their selfish interests, describing the new faction as a distraction that will be soon be addressed.
Chief Yakiah, who is a founding member of the party, said the party had only one leader in the state, who is the current Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylva, and one executive, led by Mr Amos Jothan.
A group led by Ebierien Fala Itubor and said to be loyal to the immediate past Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, had last week opened a parallel secretariat in Opolo axis of Yenagoa, claiming they are the authentic party exco in the state.
But Yakiah, who said the leadership of the party had groomed the party in the state to become a formidable platform, said those claiming to be a faction of the party were just out to create crisis ahead of the forthcoming convention.