Group Says Gov Dickson Planned To Hijack Bayelsa APC Before His Alleged Defection

A caucus group within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa state, has alleged that Bayelsa state Governor, Seriake Dickson want to hijack the structure of the APC before he defect from the People’s Democratic Party ((PDP).

The group alleged that the governor was doing everything to decimate members of the party in an efforts to control its machinery before his final defection.

While warning that members of APC will resist every efforts made by anyone to bring Dickson into the party, the group said they are aware the Governor is making frantic, frenzied and desperate efforts to defect to the All Progressives Congress.

In a statement signed by Hon. Omoru Prefegha and Elder Opukiri Livinnstone, Chairman and Secretary of the Bayelsa Progressive Front respectively and made available to BigPen Online on Saturday, the accused the Governor, who is the Chairman of the PDP reconciliation  committe of desperation.

“While this is one ambition he has nursed for a while, he has become, curiously, more enthusiastic of late to ditch his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

“Intelligence suggests he is currently in talks with a South-South APC Governor,  a North-West APC Governor and a Vice Presidential nominee of the SDP in the 90s.

“But, while making all these efforts on the one hand, he is, on the other hand, trying to decimate the APC at the state level. He is also sponsoring stories of defection of our state leader Chief Timipre Sylva as a smoke-screen to haze-off his own desperate plans of defection. One cannot get more cynical than this.”

The statement said Dickson should realize that the only way the party can accept him is if he joins and starts-off with a decent degree of harmonious relations with members of the APC and her leadership, rather than attempting to destroy the party in the state.

“We are asking if this how he wants to come, by trying to destroy the party he is begging and whining to join?.

“We want to make it categorically clear that we the members of APC will resist every effort made by anyone to bring Dickson into the party.

“He has spurned his dream of determining his successor so he wants to defect to the APC in an opportunistic bid to take advantage of the incumbency at the center and at the state level.

“Let him brace up for a just political contest between  him on the PDP side and we on the APC side and not cowardly try to decamp to the APC at a time so close to the elections”, the statement concluded.