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John Oyegun, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says his party has reservations about the Bayelsa state governorship election, which was won by Seriake Dickson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Addressing state house correspondents after the meeting of the national working committee (NWC) with President Muhammadu Buhari, Oyegun condemned the violence and killings in the poll.

Oyegun said the APC would “examine what has come out very carefully and decide the next line of action”.

“The Bayelsa election has come and gone. We have very deep regrets that there was so much blood that was spilt in the process,” he said.

“We have a lot of reservations, some of which our candidate has very eloquently expressed.”

On the ongoing fight against corruption, Oyegun said the party was not in any way apologetic over the arrest and interrogation of some politicians and bigwigs across the country.

According to him, there is a lot of rot in the system, which the present administration is determined to cleanse no matter whose ox is gored.

He said it was not true that the anti-corruption crusade was meant to decimate the opposition, especially the top members of the PDP.

“The APC is not in any way apologetic. We promised change and there is a lot of rot in the system,” he said.

“This must be cleansed and whoever and whatever ox is being gored, where ever the tree is going to fall, so, let it be.

“We must get use to the fact that in the process of cleansing this nation, there is going to be a lot of bullets to bite.

“The APC has not been in office at national level for the last 10 to 16 years. So, the issue of whether somebody is PDP or not PDP does not arise.

“We have a nation to cleanse. The president has committed himself to that and that and we should fight it whatever way it comes. We are not being apologetic about that at all.

“It has nothing to do with witch-hunting. It just happens that the dramatis personae of the period all happened to be on one side of the political divide.”