By Samuel Oyadongha

Yenagoa—The interim leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State, has disowned loyalists of the former governor, Chief Timipre Sylva and members of the defunct Karu Baraje-led new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, over claims that they control the party and its new structure in the state.

Though the interim state executive committee of the party said the loyalists of the former governor were welcomed to the party if properly registered during the forthcoming registration exercise, it expressed disgust over what it described as false and misleading actions and statements from the Sylva loyalists for unveiling a separate secretariat and composition of state executive committee for the party.

In a statement after its meeting in Yenagoa,  APC leaders said that the raging storm on the unveiling of parrallel secetariats and composition of interim leadership by Sylva’s loyalists was an embarrassment to the party.

The APC leaders, who met under the aegis of Bayelsa State Interim Executive Committee, formerly known as the State Harmonisation Committee, said though they had examined the claims of the Sylva loyalists and their sponsors, they concluded that “the action is a shock and embarrassment to the state Interim Committee.”

The statement by Nalaguo Chris Alagoa, Mrs. Esther Joshua Okiowei, the Former Vice Chairman (South-South) of All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, Chief Livinus Opuakpa, the former State Chairman of ANPP, Mr. Tuamo Abule, Chief Harrow Zuokumor and Emmanuel Anderson, argued that “it is not true that the national secretariat supports the strange action of these bed fellows as they are alien to the extant APC arrangement on ground, as the state Interim Executive Committee is the only recognised body for that purpose.”