Duba Calls On Political Actors Not To Beat Drum Of War.

 

The Commissioner For Information, Orientation and Strategy  in Bayelsa State Ayibaina Duba  has called on Political Actors not to beat the drum of war in the state stating that it scares voters form coming out to exercise their franchise

Speaking on Saturday at his country home at Nedugo community in Yenagoa local government area of the state he speculated that beating the drum of war by political actors may have made some electorate not to come out and vote especially the non indigenes in the area

 But he described the  accreditation  and voting process  generally as being peaceful stating that there was no delay at all  in his unit 12  ward  7 where he casted his vote.

Ayibaina Duba said "For my community here right now, I don't think there was any issue concerning BVAS  malfunctioning or anything. And we started early, the materials came early enough because the RAC center was open since yesterday and it was peaceful. 

"They were at the RAC center and then this morning we started early enough and we started voting early.

So comparatively from what I have seen here and I get reports from other places too, within the constituency I don't think there was any issue of BVAS  malfunctioning  this time around.

"Usually, even here there used to be more crowd, but I don't know if maybe because it's an off circle election people decided to stay back Particularly, from what I see the non indigenes were not keen.

"I don't what to speculate but you know sometimes when you hear the drums of war, people are scared from coming out, as you can see it's peaceful. 

"But it will scare people away, I will only call on political actors not to beat the drums  of war preparatory to elections. Let us be civil in what we say,  be temperate in our expression so that people will not have the fear, that too I'm just speculating.