Udengs Eradiri, the Labour Party (LP) candidate in Bayelsa State, has had his governorship ambitions dashed after six of the party’s local government chairmen left him on the day of the election.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, the party leaders abandoned Eradiri over the alleged exclusion of party executives and structure from the governorship campaign.
The leaders also stated that Eradiri purposefully refused to inaugurate the campaign council, instead appointing simply a two-man campaign structure to act as errand boys.
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Super Kworkwor (Yenagoa), Ifiemi Ilahnyog (Southern Ijaw), Clinton Naru Emesua (Ogbia), Tamuno Deifugha (Kolokuma/Opokuma), Warri Moses (Sagbama), and Appi Ebierelayefa Stephen (Nembe) are the party chairmen.
The party chairmen include Super Kworkwor (Yenagoa), Ifiemi Ilahnyog (Southern Ijaw), Clinton Naru Emesua (Ogbia), Tamuno Deifugha (Kolokuma/Opokuma), Warri Moses (Sagbama) and Appi Ebierelayefa Stephen (Nembe).
The party leaders stated in a statement issued in Yenagoa on Friday that Eradiri declined multiple invitations to appear before the party’s State Executives and counsel on needed synergy with party officials.
They also stated that the party’s governorship candidate openly insulted, embarrassed, and rejected every piece of advice given to him in order for the party to participate in campaign activities.
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The statement reads: “Our candidate lacks the maturity required to be the governor of Bayelsa State. Yes, we agree that he is well educated and has experience, but maturity is zero. He is too petty, fault-finding, quick-tempered, impatient and very argumentative. Our candidate does not believe in our party or its leadership. He abuses and criticizes the party leaders both in private and in public. Even the national leaders are like children as far as our candidate is concerned.
“The governorship candidate of our party in Bayelsa State deceived us about his financial preparedness to contest this governorship election. Every Bayelsan knows the enormous financial implications of contesting for a state’s governor position. The candidate is also 100 per cent aware that the party has depleted its resources in the last presidential election, and he ought also to know to have come prepared. Instead, he asked the party what we had brought to the table.”
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