{"id":193731,"date":"2020-02-14T20:18:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193731"},"modified":"2020-02-14T20:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T19:19:43","slug":"bayelsa-pdp-secretariat-others-set-ablaze-as-protest-rocks-yenagoa-over-supreme-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=193731","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa: PDP Secretariat, others set ablaze as protest rocks Yenagoa over Supreme Court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tension has risen to the crescendo in Bayelsa State as aggrieved Bayelsans and APC supporters embarked on massive protest following INEC\u2019s declaration of PDP Douye Diri as the state\u2019s governor-elect.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of angry youths and women, Friday trooped to major streets of Yenagoa, protesting the Supreme Court verdict that sacked the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in the November 16 gubernatorial election. They set the PDP\u2019s Secretariat in the State ablaze.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST reported that the Independent National Electoral Commission( INEC), had declared the candidate of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP) Douye Diri, winner of the Bayelsa governorship election after series of meeting with stakeholders at the commission\u2019s headquarters in Abuja.<\/p>\n

The declaration followed an earlier verdict nullifying the election of David Lyon and his Deputy, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo by the apex court.<\/p>\n

The protesting youths and women drawn from the eight Local Government Areas of the state started their peaceful rally from Tombia roundabout, and terminated at the Bayelsa state INEC office, chanting \u201cNo David Lyon, No Governor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The protesters were armed with APC flags, brooms of all sizes, and placards with different inscriptions, \u201cDavid Lyon is the choice of the masses, Judiciary does not mean well for our state, we can\u2019t suffer another 4 years again, we voted for the people we trusted, Don\u2019t stop our Messiah.\u201d<\/p>\n

When DAILY POST visited some of the government\u2019s property reportedly destroyed by the protesters, they were mostly up in flames, with heavy security presence to deter the protesters from further actions.<\/p>\n

The four security post of the State high court was razed in fire; the Yenagoa secretariat was also destroyed with all the billboards having the PDP candidate. The state PDP secretariat was partly razed.<\/p>\n

The Joint military and police patrol in the Yenagoa city, helped in salvaging further attacks on properties, and also the government house.<\/p>\n

One of the women leaders, Madam Normy, who was visibly angry, said \u201dwe can\u2019t continue to suffer in our state for another eight years under one man who doesn\u2019t care about an ordinary man in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201dLook at what the civil servants are suffering despite their right to salary. Some have not had their salaries since December not to talk about January. The pensioners were dieing while waiting for their entitlement.<\/p>\n

According to a party stalwart, Comrade Richman Alabo, \u201dwe are protesting the injustice happening in our state, the people of the state have spoken in one voice, why should the court decide otherwise.<\/p>\n

Alabo said, \u201cHe is a man of the people, we will continue our protest if the right things are not done. He has come to save us as our Messiah. Look at the vision of the new government led by David Lyon, we are ready to die for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tension has risen to the crescendo in Bayelsa State as aggrieved Bayelsans and APC supporters embarked on massive protest following INEC\u2019s declaration of PDP Douye Diri as the state\u2019s governor-elect. Hundreds of angry youths and women, Friday trooped to major streets of Yenagoa, protesting the Supreme Court verdict that sacked the All Progressives Congress (APC) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[14285,2658,48],"class_list":["post-193731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bayelsa-2","tag-a","tag-inec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/193732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}