Dickson Urges Bayelsans To Vote PDP

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has urged the people of Bayelsa to keep faith with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as they go to the polls on November 16 to elect his successor.
Dickson, who made the call in a radio broadcast, last Sunday night, in Yenagoa, noted that voting against the PDP would amount to betrayal of trust to PDP faithful nationwide.
He said that the faithful of the party who supported former President Goodluck Jonathan to become President would be disappointed if the people of Bayelsa dumped PDP for the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).
He advised the people to make informed choices between Sen. Douye Diri of the PDP and Chief David Lyon of the APC haven heard the candidates sell their plans as they canvassed for votes in a peaceful atmosphere.
“I advise Bayelsa people in their own interest to keep faith with PDP; the followers of PDP across the country who made sacrifices and supported one of our own to become President will feel disappointed if we abandon PDP.
“It is on record that some of them were attacked for supporting former President Goodluck Jonathan and so it is only reasonable that we remain with PDP,” Dickson said.
On the purported rift with Jonathan over the choice of the PDP governorship candidate, Dickson blamed ‘political jobbers’ for making misleading comments and misrepresenting his actions.
Dickson said that those who claimed to be working for Jonathan did not mean well for the former President.
He said that Jonathan remained his leader, adding that he served as a political strategist to the ex-president.
He, however, added that those sowing the seed of discord between them were unfair to him.
“I do not want to say much but those of them sowing the seed of discord were not there when I fought battles for the former President,’’ he stated. Dickson noted that he stood with Jonathan and never compromised during his re-election bid in 2015 as some did.
“I told him then that the election was our own and those who wanted to impose a successor on me are unfair.