• TAN deployed as chief tool
Transformation Agenda of Nigeria (TAN), the
chief campaigner for President Goodluck
Jonathan’s second term, has been recruited
to spearhead the ouster of Governor Seriake
Dickson of Bayelsa State from office.
Allegedly bankrolling the campaign in
President Jonathan’s home state is his wife,
Dame Patience, who recently resigned her
appointment as a Permanent Secretary in the
state civil service.
The resignation confirmed speculations
about the First Lady’s frosty relations with
the governor.
Mrs. Jonathan, according to political
sources in the state, wants Seriake out of
power not beyond 2016 when his first term
expires.
Her move is generating ripples in the state
with some elders and stakeholders said to be
angry at what they see as a plot to
destabilise the state.
They are considering sending a high-
powered delegation to President Jonathan to
call his wife to order.
The Nation gathered that the First Lady
brought in TAN to drive the ‘Seriake-must-go
campaign’, and also consulted former close
associates of ex-governor of the state, Mr.
Timipre Sylva, to lead TAN in the state.
The plot, sources said, entails the
restructuring of TAN leadership in the state.
Tipped to lead the new TAN is a former top
government functionary in the state and
close associate of the First Lady.
The proposed TAN leader was until recently
in Sylva’s camp.
The current leader of TAN in the state, Mr.
Talford Ongolo, has been pushed aside to
give way for the new man.
The new man has started his mission by
coordinating the distribution of goodies from
a federal government agency to the people.
The source who pleaded anonymity said the
campaign is expected to be launched soon
with anti-Seriake rallies across the state.
“This is just the latest addition to the bag of
strategies mapped out by the First Lady to
remove Dickson,” the source said.
“You’ll recall that she resigned her
appointment as permanent secretary to give
her the moral ground to launch this war.
Besides, you heard of her partnership with
some federal lawmakers.
“Right now she has resolved that TAN should
drive the process. She is working with the
loyalists of former governor Sylva and they
are coming under the guise of TAN to work
against Dickson.
“That is her new strategy now. She wants to
use the TAN structure which is everywhere to
actualise her ambition.”
He said the First Lady had already promised
her foot soldiers juicy rewards after a
successful campaign.
“They are going to use TAN like a body to
fight the government and they are going to
engage in propaganda. It is the same thing
that they are doing now, everything possible
to rubbish the governor.
“Her number one agenda is to get him out of
the way.”
The source said Bayelsa elders and
stakeholders who are aware of the
development will soon be “meeting with the
President to plead with him to call his wife to
order.”
When contacted, Ongolo’s personal aide
confirmed that his boss had been sidelined
from all TAN activities in the state.
The aide who said his name should not be
mentioned said TAN suddenly accused
Ongolo of being Dickson’s man and declared
him unfit to handle its affairs in the state.
“It was a surprise to all of us. Ongolo has
been the coordinator of TAN in the state but
recently he was not allowed to handle TAN
activities any more. He was branded
Dickson’s man. We don’t know what that
means but we smell a rat.
“We were also surprised to see someone
coordinating the activities of TAN and it
became obvious when he led the distribution
of items brought for women in the state.
“My boss still has all the documents of TAN
in his custody. Nobody has had the courtesy
to officially relieve him of his position.”




Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/new/first-ladys-plot-to-unseat-dickson-gathers-stream/

Is Madam trying to secure the position for herself in 2016 Bayelsa Governorship election, when Nigerians must have kicked the Zoologist out of office? This woman love power like hell

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