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Group advises Dickson to drop re-election ambition

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State

NEDU MARK, Yenagoa

Bayelsa youths under the auspices of the Youth Forum for Progressive Change, have advised Governor Seriake Dickson not to contest the December 5 governorship poll in the state.

The group, loyal to the state Chairman, All Progressives Congress, Chief Tiwei Orunimighe, however, urged governor Dickson to ‘take the honourable path of backing out of the poll if he was scared of defeat.’

The group’s position is contained in a communiqué signed by its National Coordinator, Aye Itare; Secretary, Mr. Jonathan Okwu and Public Relations Officer, Mr. Amamboha John, issued after its meeting in Yenagoa and released, Tuesday.

It alleged that Dickson had demonstrated he was jittery going by the attacks his office had been sponsoring against politicians that had signified intention to contest the election against him, not minding the political platform.

“We, as civilized Bayelsa youths, hereby admonish Governor Seriake Dickson that governing the people is not a do-or-die affair.

“So, if he is not sure of his fate in the oncoming governorship election slated for December 5 or if he is too scared of calibre personalities coming to the poll against him, he should do the needful – leave office honourably by withdrawing from the race.

“We as youths will gladly forgive him of some of the things he could not get right as a governor.

“Our admonition to Dickson is hinged on the fact that no amount of insults, wilful misrepresentation of facts, innuendos nor plain attacks or derogatory remarks by him or his supporters on the persons of APC leaders in the state such as Tiwei Orunimighe, former Governor Timipre Sylva, Chief Ndutimi Alaibe, Chief Diekivie Ikiogha, or any other governorship aspirants can make him return in 2016.”

The group advised the governor to toe the suggested path of honour instead of listening to his aides who would not tell him the home truth that his days in Government House were numbered.

The group counselled him to visit online posts on him personally to aggregate the people’s pulse about his government’s popularity instead of relying on sycophants who were afraid of telling him the truth about his dwindling popularity.

The group leadership urged Bayelsans to vote wisely in the forthcoming poll to enthrone leaders who would feel their pulse.

The YFPC regretted the last Saturday’s clash between the officials of state’s environmental sanitation and the convoy of Orunimighe, alleging that the whole episode was a failed attempt on the life of the APC chair.

“Clearly Saturday’s incident was an attempt on the life of Chief Tiwei Orunimighe. How else does the government intend to rationally explain the fact that an environmental sanitation chairman opened fire on the convoy of the chairman ofa  rival political party?”

The group called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of various security agencies to delve into the Bayelsa situation to ensure that the government did not use the security resources at its disposal to maim and kill innocent citizens to achieve political aims.

However, the state government in its earlier reaction to last Saturday’s incident said it was the security personnel attached to Orunimighe who reportedly opened fire in an attempt to escape arrest from men of the Bayelsa State Environmental Sanitation Board.

The Chairman, BSESB, Oboku Offorji, had at a press briefing after the incident raised the alarm over possible breakdown of law and order in the state as the governorship election approached.

He alleged that Orunimighe flouted the state’s sanitation law by driving in a convoy without permit during the period of the exercise but were stopped by sanitation officers.

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