The Bayelsa State Government on Sunday called on
those it described as desperate politicians interested in the gubernatorial
ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to leave the state Governor, Seriake
Dickson, and former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, out of their political
campaigns in the state.
The state government maintained that recent
publications attacking the former president and his family were a pointer to a
dangerous attempt to set the two leaders against each other, following meetings
between the politicians to sort out issues surrounding the November 16 governorship
election in the state.
Special Adviser to the governor on Media Relations,
Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, in a statement in Yenagoa, urged the governorship
aspirants of the PDP to focus their attention on unveiling their development
agenda for the state rather than deploying underhand tactics to create division
between the governor and the former president for political gains.
Soriwei, in the statememnt, decried the situation
where politicians seeking to contest the governorship election sponsor parallel
publications against the governor and his team; and the former President and
his team with the intent to deepen
disagreement and fault lines in the state.
He insisted that the attack on the former president
was planned by politicians and their cronies, who according to him, were
reacting to the outcome of meetings and consultations between the governor and
the former president on the issue of the aspirants in the forthcoming
primaries.
The state government, therefore, advised the people of the state to be wary of the
sinister antics of the politicians who it said have devised a strategy of
division in the PDP as their political lifeline in the state.
“Our attention has been drawn to a scurrilous
publication targeted at the former president. We have also seen the reaction
from people suspected to be the former president’s publicists.
"We decry the situation where politicians who
are seeking to contest the governorship election in the state would sponsor
parallel publications against the governor, his government and his team, as
well as the former president and his family and his team, thereby deepening and
taking advantage of the disagreement and fault lines in the state.
“We have read the publication by the PDP Youth
Network, and we condemn any attack on the former president. Our suspicion from
all preliminary enquiries is pointing in the direction of some desperate
gubernatorial aspirants who are doing everything possible to deepen division in
the state especially between the governor and the former president for their
own selfish advantage,” the statement noted.
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