It is only seven days to the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states, but members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are confused over the stand of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Their anxiety further heightened on Wednesday when the party flagged off its campaign rally with Jonathan conspicuously absent.

Also absent at the rally was a governorship aspirant and former chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Chief Timi Alaibe, whose candidacy Jonathan was believed to have supported in the party’s governorship primary in Bayelsa State, which was won by Senator Douye Diri. Both Jonathan and Alaibe are said to have been very bitter since the latter lost out in the primary election. They believe that the process was manipulated against Alaibe.

Efforts made by the party and the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson, to placate them have yielded no fruit. Governor Dickson said he had made efforts on 15 different occasions to get Jonathan to support Diri’s candidacy but all his efforts have been fruitless. With the elections now only one week away, party members in Bayelsa State are concerned that Jonathan’s attitude has been lukewarm.

Their fears are compounded by the absence of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, also from the campaigns flag-off on account of the cold war between him and Governor Dickson, which dates back to the election of national officers for PDP in the build-up to the 2019 general elections. Wike had supported the candidacy of the party’s current national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus while Dickson preferred Chief Bode George because he believed that the Southwest needed to be brought into the mainstream.

In the presidential primary of the party also, the two governors had deferred in their choice of candidates. Wike wanted Hon. Aminu Tambuwal as the party’s presidential candidate while Dickson wanted Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. But right there in Port Harcourt, Wike’s candidate was trounced, setting the stage for the peace of the graveyard that currently prevails between them.

Wike’s absence at Wednesday’s rally, observers say, could be an indication that he cares less about the outcome of the elections.

solmusdesigns:





Jonathan that has now found President Buhari's good book, entering Aso Rock any how and Laughing with the President like hyena after having a close door meeting



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oshozondii:


https://thenationonlineng.net/jonathan-keeps-pdp-guessing-one-week-to-kogi-bayelsa-elections/

valentineuwakwe:
Even the members knows the party is dead.......they must don't wnt to come out and say it, maybe they will float a new political party soon, cos Nigerians will never forgive the many sins of the PDP

Bannylove13:


Comment with sense..

mindful01:
Before 2010 Jonathan will join APC, I worked with him for 2 years so I know

Onijagidijagan:
APC and SDD must merge in Bayelsa

festacman:
Outgoing Gov. Seriake Dickson made the typical Nigerian politician move: First, impose your candidate at all cost. Second, use begging, negotiations and threats to make others support your preferred candidate. From all indications, he treated former President Jonathan as a piece of rag in the build up to the election. Jonathan is right in ignoring him and his candidate.

Eventually, Seriake Dickson will be out of power like Jonathan and he will have a taste of his own medicine.

solmusdesigns:
Mumu talk, why not comment your own if we would find sense their

mindful01:
Before 2010 Jonathan will join APC, I worked with him for 2 years so I know

mindful01:
Before 2019 Jonathan will join APC, I worked with him for 2 years so I know

valentineuwakwe:
Even the members knows the party is dead.......they must don't wnt to come out and say it, maybe they will float a new political party soon, cos Nigerians will never forgive the many sins of the PDP

Bannylove13:


Oga try make sense for a day.

solmusdesigns:
Mumu talk, why not comment your own if we would find sense their

valentineuwakwe:
Even the members knows the party is dead.......they must don't wnt to come out and say it, maybe they will float a new political party soon, cos Nigerians will never forgive the many sins of the PDP

solmusdesigns:
Make your own sense na.. Mr minister of sense checking affiars... isnt it a free comment section make your own sense filled comment

ZombieTERROR:
Goodluck has no electoral value

That's why he was chased out of Abuja even with the nations treasury at his disposal

The man is a dunce

mindful01:
Before 2019 Jonathan will join APC, I worked with him for 2 years so I know

Bannylove13:
Gej is pdp.. and he's a leader in the party.

All this propaganda for a state already won by pdp?

People wey never enter town go just the form analysis on top state wey dey 3000km from them.
Apc has no plan for bayelsa state.. except to loot.