‘PDP not Ijaw party’

The Bayelsa State All Progressive Congress (APC) has flayed the former Governor  of the state, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, for insisting at various fora that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is an Ijaw party.

A stalwart of APC and the party’s Publicity Secretary in Nembe Local Government Area, Mr. Wilfred Ogbotobo, said rather than fanning embers of ethnicism, Alamieyeseigha should tell Bayelsans the concrete achievements of Governor Seriake Dickson and President Goodluck Jonathan to deserve their support.

He said: “Rather than declaring PDP an Ijaw party, whch is a non issue, former governor, DSP Alamieyeseigha should enlighten Bayelsans by pinpointing concrete achievements of Jonathan and Dickson to buttress Dickson’s second term bid”.

Speaking in Yenagoa, Ogbotobo said Alamieyeseigha’s declaration was huge mockery to the Ijaw and the PDP, which hitherto had claimed to be the biggest party in Africa.

He said far from being an Ijaw party, PDP was a platform used to impose irresponsible leadership on the Ijaw nation.

“PDP has never been and will never be an Ijaw party. It is a satanic platform that facilitated the emergence of some of the worst political leaders from the Ijaw ethnic nationality in the 21st century.

“We want to agree with former President Jonathan’s statement that this election is beyond Dickson. In this election, certain mysteries would have to be unlocked. Existing relationships would have to be reassessed. Decisions have to be made. A path has to be strewn on which we can move steadily and assuredly toward our collective destiny.

“Bayelsans should rely on the APC as the PDP has successfully made itself unreliable. Former President Goodluck Jonathan  eulogised achievements of Dickson in the  areas of infrastructural development and security, payment of workersa and reduction of the state’s debt profile.

“We sincerely believe that Jonathan sleep-walked to the endorsement of Dickson because he could not cite a single worthy project as outstanding testimony to his six years at the Presidency and the four years of Dickson whom he imposed on Bayelsa.

“The five-star Tower Hotel project, which he used to demonise Sylva and deny him a second term, has shown no difference. For unknown reasons, they are yet to commission for use the much touted ‘flyover’, now standing like a female juju statue adjacent theTower Hotel”.