BAYELSA POLITICIANS BUDGETS N 1M PER THUG FOR APRIL ELECTION

There are strong indications that Bayelsa leading politicians may have concluded all necessary arrangement in hiring political thugs that will help them in achieving their political ambition come April general elections.

BOF investigation weekend in Bayelsa state shows that there have been the presence of stern look young men, particularly in the capital Yenagoa, who are now in capital.

Already, thongs have started wagging that leading politicians in the state are already recruiting these political thugs and offering them as much as N 1 million per thug in other to help them in achieving their political ambition come April.

A source who simply identified himself as Ebi, informed BOF in Yenagoa, that political thugs are in high demand in Bayelsa, particularly with the amnesty progremme in place , the boys in the creeks are now in the amnesty camps.

Ebi further said that the two leading political gladiators in the state are involved in the scrabble for political thugs.

He further said that both are offering as much as N 1 million per thugs for the duration of the campaign and a decent hotel accommodation, feeding and among other things.

He disclosed that one of the governorship candidate from an opposition party have already secured the services of about 1.6,000 political thugs at N 1 million each totaling about N 1.6,billion.

The source further disclosed that the man from the opposition party is hell bent in wresting power from the from the incumbent Governor Sylva, whom many analyst regarded as not to have performed , having wasted four yours without anything to show for the huge allocations coming on only basises to the state.

Already, most of the aspirants who felt shortchanged during the just concluded PDP primaries have all deflected to Labour Party, while some of the governorship aspirants in PDP that lost to Governor Timipre Sylva in the primaries have all moved to join hands with Mr. Timi Alaibe in Labour Party and have all vowed to win in all eight local government areas.

So far, it is alleged that some of the thugs are already recruited and lodged in different hotels and that most of them are being used to register some Bayelans, by using some of the missing direct data capture machine of INEC.

Some of the prominent politicians in the state that have abandoned PDP to Labour Party includes Hon. Fred Agbadi, former PDP chairman in Bayelsa State, who also contested and lost to Sylva, Bishop Beimo Rufus-Spiff, who also contested the governorship position with Sylva, it was at his campaign rally in Opolo Yenagoa that twin bomb blast exploded, the impeached Deputy Governor, Hon Peremobowei Ebebi, who is in Labour Party is contesting against incumbent, senator Heineken Lokpobiri, are all big names in the Alaibe political camp.



Meanwhile security agents are already monitoring movements, it is also alleged that those involved in this wicked act are some of the official of the state government and top aides of a top politicians, who is contesting on the platform of another party.

efforts at speaking to Hon. Nathan Egba, the commissioner for information and Hon Douye Diri, director of publicity, Alaibe campaign organization proved abortive as all their telephone lines are unavailable as at the press time
while police public relation officer for Bayelsa state command, Mr. Eguavon Emokpae said that anybody that breaches the law, no matter how highly placed will be prosecuted, according to him police have earlier warned all politicians in the state to desist from thuggery, maintaining that his men have already been trained towards the April general elections and that they are on top of any incident during the period of the elections