{"id":169070,"date":"2019-11-19T19:34:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=169070"},"modified":"2019-11-19T19:34:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:34:44","slug":"bayelsa-goodluck-jonathan-was-used-by-apc-against-pdp-gov-dickson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=169070","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa: Goodluck Jonathan was used by APC against PDP – Gov. Dickson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Governor Seriake Dickson has claimed that former President Goodluck Jonathan was used by the All Progressives Congress against the Peoples Democratic Party in the Saturday\u2019s governorship election in Bayelsa State.<\/p>\n

He said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would challenge the result of Nov. 16 Bayelsa governorship election in court.<\/p>\n

Dickson disclosed this while addressing a world press conference in Yenagoa on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

He maintained that the PDP did not lose the election as it was characterised by violence and widespread malpractices, which were carefully documented.<\/p>\n

Dickson, however, said he would set up a transition committee to work out modalities for smooth handover on Feb. 14, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur candidate, Sen. Douye Diri and the party chairman have been speaking about the charade called election that took place in Bayelsa on Saturday, and the invasion of our state by security forces.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dehumanisation of our people and how the majority of the areas and in places, where our people were denied the right to vote for the candidate of their choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe story is all out there that what took place in the state on Nov. 16 was not a democratic election.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, today, I\u2019m here to add my voice to all that has been said already, and it was so brazen, it has never been like this in this state before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dickson added: \u201cI know that in 2015, we went through a very though time, there was displayed of federal might, but at least, it was not as bad as this.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the endorsement of Mr David Lyon by the governor-elect by ex-president Good luck Jonathan was regrettable and a ploy by the APC to strategically take over the state, NAN reports.<\/p>\n

He said that the perception that he alienated PDP stakeholders including the former president was unfounded adding that the primary election that produced the PDP candidate was credible.<\/p>\n

\u201cJonathan remains my oga and I respect him, but there are lots of efforts by certain interest to create a rift between us, there is no politician that has been there for the former president than me.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has also helped me but it is unfortunate that I am being misconstrued in this matter of the election, I tried to meet Jonathan for 16 times and he opted to support a candidate that does not wish me well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will soon write my memoirs and people will have a fair view of what happened, the visit of some APC governors to Jonathan who congratulated the APC candidate without congratulating the candidate of his party.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is strategic for APC leaders to use Jonathan to legitimise the illegitimacy that happened on Saturday,\u201d Dickson said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Governor Seriake Dickson has claimed that former President Goodluck Jonathan was used by the All Progressives Congress against the Peoples Democratic Party in the Saturday\u2019s governorship election in Bayelsa State. He said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would challenge the result of Nov. 16 Bayelsa governorship election in court. Dickson disclosed this while addressing a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2658,1154,2226],"class_list":["post-169070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-bayelsa","tag-seriake-dickson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}