“Campaign Of Calumny Will Not Help Your Case” Rep Tells Seriake Dickson

A member of the House of Representatives has told the Bayelsa state governor that campaign of calumny will not help his bid for reelection. The member who craved anonymity told our reporter that the Bayelsa state governor has not done any meaningful thing that will justify his bid for reelection.

The member while reacting to the spate of vitriol that has greeted the decision of major stakeholders in the political firmament in the state to decamp to the All Progressives Congress APC said what is imperative is for the governor to do the needful which he said is rather late.

It should be noted that penultimate Saturday, former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC Mr. Ndutimi Alaibe, Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri and the state PDP Chairman Mr. Inokoba led over a thousand PDP members to the APC triggering criticisms against their actions by the governor and his followers. The governor had in an event in Abuja accused Mr. Alaibe and co of leaving the PDP due to selfish motives. Other groups purportedly sponsored by the governor have also made statements kicking against the decampment.

However criticisms have greeted the reaction of the governor to the decampment of the ex PDP members with groups accusing him of playing a politics of calumny rather than objective and issue based politics. The recent criticism of the use of this form of campaign which many said was primitive has come from the member of the House of Reps who insists that the number one enemy of Bayelsa state is Governor Seriake Dickson whom he says should not be reelected if Bayelsa state must move to the next level.

The member insists that the governor’s lack of vision has led to the decampment of assets in the party to the APC. He insists that despite all the plans by the governor and his band of followers to tarnish the reputation built by the decampees, Bayelsa people will not be fooled by the antics of the governor. The member stressed that it was this same atavistic blackmail approach that the PDP and its apparatchik used during the last elections against the election of President Muhammadu Buhari yet they failed in stopping him from becoming president. He said the PDP in the state should employ a better approach rather than resorting to something that will make them look cheap in the eyes of the electorates. “What is required of the PDP as they strategise to retain power in the state is to look for a creative way to checkmate the rising profile of the APC in the state instead of resorting to attacking the personality of those who left the party as a result of the ineptitude of the governor and his insensitivity to the yearnings of Bayelsa people for positive change” He stressed.