Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri, the Minister of State for Agriculture, has said the commission of enquiry set up by Bayelsa Government to investigate violence during the 2019 General Election in the state is a ploy to divert attention.
Lokpobiri also described his invitation to appear before the panel as attempt to distract people of the state from the real issue of Gov. Seriake Dickson’s alleged mal-administration in the past seven years.
The minister made this known in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr George Oji, on Sunday.
He noted the said panel was illegal as and strange to the extant laws governing elections, including the electoral ectoral act and the constitution.
The Bayelsa Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had distanced itself from the panel and urged its members not to appear before it.
APC Spokesman, Doifie Buokoribo, said that the PDP government in Bayelsa had no moral rights to be a judge in an election it partook in.
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