Alameiyesiegha Moves To Save PDP From Collapse

Former Governor of Bayelsa and a chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Diepreye Alameiyesiegha has vowed to stop the growing influence of  All Progressives Congress  (APC) in Bayelsa state  ahead of December 5  governorship election.

Diepreye Alameiyesiegha

The former governor who in an interview with The Nation said what people are seeing as the increasing popularity of the APC in the state is a flash in the pan as adding that the party does not have a structure in the state to win election.

Alameiyesiegha said:  “This state is a PDP state. We the elders will not allow foreign bedfellows to take over this state. An Ijaw man has never been conquered. We would not allow it to happen. You can call it any name. Our people are not seeing or reading in between the lines.”

He added the APC in the state is being sponsored by people outside the state who are only interested in the state resources not for the good of the state.

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“These people are only interested in what God has given to us; our resources. If anybody tells you as an Ijaw man that these people love you, it’s a lie. I know them and they know me too; people should be careful when they reason. We must not mortgage our future for immediate gain,”  former governor opined.

Reacting to the mass defection of PDP members to APC, the ex-governor said that those that are defecting are after their bellies explaining  that they are group of people that only congregate with you when the weather is right and when it becomes cloudy, they flee.

“I am sure you are aware that some PDP members in the state are defecting to the All Progressive Congress ( APC), some of them are doing that for lack of understanding. Maybe they are thinking that when they defect to the APC they will get more benefits. For those members from Bayelsa that defected from the PDP to the APC, I pity them because the APC does not even know they exist. They were not involved in the election of the President Buhari because they were all in the PDP,” Alameiyesiegha said.

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Former governor gave the state governor a pat on the back for a job well done saying that there is need for continuity of government so that dividend of democracy will reach the people at the grass roots.

“Governor Dickson has done well. What I have seen on ground in the last three years is very encouraging. Our problem remains continuity; the continuation of policies and programme of government,” he said.

Read the full interview here.

 

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