₦airaland Forum

blemon44:
GEJ has already done something and will continue to do untill 2019

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State yesterday drew the battle line between him and the state leadership of the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), the group in the vanguard of a second term for President Goodluck Jonathan.

Seriake who has been locked in a power struggle with the group yesterday alleged ‘subversive tendencies’ which according to him “have almost been taken to a treasonable level.”

The governor mentioned no names in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, but he recently sacked his Commissioner for Local Government, Mrs. Marie Ebikake, and his special adviser, Mrs. Remi Kuku, for allegedly romancing with his detractors led by the immediate past deputy governor of the state, Mr. Werinipre Seibarugu.

The state’s TAN is firmly in the grips of loyalists of the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, who are believed to be working hard to sack the governor or prevent him from getting a second term.

Some members of the group were said to have joined in taunting the governor at the recent traditional wedding of the president’s daughter in his Otuoke country home.

Iworiso-Markson in his statement yesterday accused the leadership of TAN in the state of causing division within the PDP.

Although the governor reaffirmed his total support and commitment to the re-election of the President, he vowed that he would not allow enemies of the state to disorganise the ongoing restoration in the state.

Dickson said that contrary to reports that he ordered his aides not to attend the president’s daughter’s wedding, he as the leader of the government and PDP, personally mobilised women and youth groups from all over the state and also led the state delegation to attend the ceremony.

He berated politicians led by Mr. Werinipre Seibarugu, Kuku and “their cohorts” for creating divisions among the women.

He said Seibarugu and co were creating division mostly to serve their own selfish interest other than promoting the genuine objectives of TAN.

He described their antics as childish and most deplorable and said their activities belie their claims of working for the success of PDP and President Jonathan in the forthcoming elections.

Dickson said while Seibarugu and his group were operating under the aegis of TAN, they rallied senior members of the previous administration in the state to engage and promote the politics of subversion and needless divisions in the state.

He said Kuku did not only create division among the women, but also displayed total disrespect for senior officials of the state government by her actions.

He said such attitude of Kuku could no longer be condoned in his government.

He said: “We want to sound a clear note of warning to all, that in the interest of peace, even as the elections draw near, that this state is bigger than every one of us and nobody, no matter how highly placed, will be spared from facing the wrath of the law, if found wanting.

“Similarly, ahead of the 2015 general elections, we warn politicians in the state to eschew every form of subversive and divisive tendencies, capable of threatening the existing peaceful, harmonious, united and conducive environment the restoration government has worked hard to put in place that has also ushered in the rapid and massive development in the state.”

He called on security agencies in the state to be alive to their constitutional roles and duties.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/dickson-accuses-pro-jonathan-group-destabilising-bayelsa/

SeverusSnape:
What do you expect from politicians?... Didn't el-Rufai say buhari was "perpetually Unelectable" some years back....I've always said it, Believe politicians at your own peril.

Japhet04:

iluvweed:

otbliz:
IBB get mouth sha, but i hope he was telling this to his great grand kids when some just journalist was snooping around.

Cos if he expects a full grown adult to believe that, then he is way over his head

chemali:
Tell another lie. He was in UK in 2013 to deliver a speech in the House of Commons. Keep spreading falsehood about Buhari. This election is a referendum on Jonathan.

http://www.punchng.com/news/fighting-corruption-in-nigeria-is-beyond-govts-capacity-buhari/

customized13:
the aim has been achieved, the motive was to instigate a clash between catholics/Anglican.

I wouldn't have reacted to this if I were GEJ, people are so sensitive to religious issue.

eunisam:
Can't we havd privacy again?

madridguy:
Wahala dey ooo. God save Naija.

rufdyamond:
@OP buhari to strike out all 6states in South West including Ekiti with Gov Fayose....re u based in ghana or what?....take my words buhari will not win out in the other two major ethnic regions SE and SW but lagos...and also states like Niger and jigawa.re strong PDP states and dat gives it to GEJ
Lemme correct u here; substract 3 SW from buhari and add to jonathan plus jigawa and Niger states that gives u 20states includin FCT and what is left for buhari is 17.....
Uneven deceptive Population of the north and violence will make it close but GEJ will carry the day...need I remind of the word incumbent??....which gives him the right to rig even more to his favour...at the end buhari go continue with him boko boys...