Reliable information available to chidi opara reports indicates that although a member of the President's party, the President is not convinced of the suitability of the governor of his home state, Chief Timipre Sylva as a state governor. The President reportedly prefers his erstwhile Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Timi Alaibe who is contesting the 2011 governorship election in the state on the platform of the Labour Party(LP). It is reported that the President is confident that Alaibe would go back to PDP as soon as he is sworn in as governor.
Contacts close to some of the President's strategists informed chidi opara reports that because of security reports linking governor Sylva to corrupt practices and support to violent tendencies in the Niger Delta region, amongst other vices, the President wanted to pressure the PDP national leadership to drop Sylva but backed down when his strategists advised against that, insisting that the move would create tension in the already volatile Bayelsa state and in the whole Niger Delta region. The President we learnt further was advised to empower Alaibe who is believed to still have soft spot for PDP.
"You can see the hand of the President in the kind of money we spend and the type of security around us", an Alaibe supporter boasted to a chidi opara reports network member in Yenagoa.
We have also been reliably informed that the President's political strategists have planned a meeting outside Abuja this weekend to re-strategize.
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