PDP govs running away from mess they created – Dickson

By John Alechenu
Abuja: Senator Seriake Dickson (PDP, Bayelsa) has accused Governors elected connected the level of the Peoples Democratic Party, including his successor, of moving distant from the messiness they created and decamping to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Dickson said this successful effect to the quality that his State Governor and successor, Duoye Diri and immoderate governmental leaders successful the authorities ditched the PDP to articulation APC.

The national lawmaker besides utilized the juncture to authorities that being successful absorption does not mean rejecting everything brought by the ruling party.

He said this portion declaring enactment for President Bola Tinubu’s information of Professor Joash Amupitan arsenic caller Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Senator Dickson spoke to journalists aft Wednesday’s plenary.

He said: “I americium wherever I person been. I americium wherever I am. I don’t judge that Nigeria should beryllium a one-party state. And arsenic a worker of democracy, I’m utilized to the ups and downs of antiauthoritarian practices and antiauthoritarian beingness and governmental beingness especially. And I’m inactive arsenic changeless arsenic a bluish star.

“Steadfast successful the Peoples Democratic Party and moving with my colleagues and friends to guarantee that problems successful the enactment are solved.

“I anticipation that the governors and the enactment moving committee who created this messiness successful our party, each of them, and who alternatively of showing leadership, person created this messiness and ensured that it has persisted for this long.

“And they are the ones present bailing retired aft creating the occupation that they could not lick oregon refused to solve. It’s precise sad. Very, precise sad. It’s making Nigeria look tiny and making our country’s ideology look ridiculous.

“We don’t truly cognize what they are pursuing oregon what is pursuing them. But immoderate it is, it belittles our ideology and endangers our multi-party democracy.”

He further said, “I judge successful a multi-party Nigeria. A plural Nigeria tin lone thrive connected a plural antiauthoritarian environment. That’s what has happened.

“But connected the specifics of Bayelsa, you know, since I near and handed implicit to each the members who utilized to beryllium portion of my team, and I left, dissimilar others who are godfathers, I’ve not been a godfather. Left everything.

“No requests, nary demands, nary pressure. Only being disposable for consultation and advice.

“As successful this case, the politician consulted maine respective times to his credit. And I was not convinced due to the fact that I didn’t spot immoderate compelling crushed for a second-term politician to defect.

“I’m conscionable utilizing this to accidental that I americium inactive lasting successful the PDP that gave my radical (the Ijaw Nation) and the Niger Delta radical an accidental to tally election, to look arsenic vice president of this country, acting president of Nigeria, and president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“This different enactment cannot bash that. And I’m lasting determination with the PDP. If and when, if we don’t win successful retrieving the PDP, successful redeeming the PDP, past we’ll beryllium portion of a corporate decision, which again, should not beryllium the ruling party.

“Because I judge determination indispensable beryllium opposition. A ideology without absorption ceases to beryllium democracy.”

On Amupitan, helium said President Tinubu has made a precise bully prime and helium volition afloat enactment confirmation of his assignment anytime the Senate screens him.

“I volition beryllium casting my vote, I volition beryllium supporting the nomination. And arsenic a subordinate of the Electoral Committee, and besides a subordinate of the Senate, I volition enactment with colleagues to guarantee that the electoral reforms we are championing spot the airy of day, and that Professor Amupitan is confirmed arsenic Chairman of INEC.

“We expect him, arsenic a prof of instrumentality and a elder advocator of Nigeria, the archetypal elder advocator to beryllium truthful nominated, to recognize his spot successful history.”

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