Crack In Dickson’s Camp As Key Ally Takes Over Restoration Banner

By Asolo Eyedoude, Yenagoa

A major crack in the Restoration Caucus around Governor Serikae Dickson has emerged after Fred Agbedi, a major figure in the governor’s inner caucus came out to denounce the reported shortlisting of three names by the Restoration Caucus as the preferred aspirants of the caucus.

Agbedi, a former chairman of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP served as the director-general of the Dickson Governorship Campaign in 2011 and 2015 and is presently a member of the House of Representatives representing Sagbama/Ekeremor Federal Constituency.

Speaking in an interview, he said that a meeting to choose a successor for the governor without his, (Agbedi’s) input is a fairy tale and an error which will fail.

Agbedi who is himself an aspirant for the PDP ticket speaking with newsmen said:

“There was no restoration meeting to decide the issue of preferred aspirants. After Gov. Dickson in the Restoration, I am the next person. And any meeting I don’t attend, as a key anchor of restoration, did not hold. That is what it means. I am sure that the issue of preferred aspirants at the purported meeting is a fairy tale.

“Because if there is a restoration meeting and I was called and I sent apology, it means there was a meeting. But if I was not invited, there was no such restoration meeting. I can tell you on good authority.

“That was why we named our campaign team ‘Onward Restoration Organization’. This is Restoration itself. Go and check all others who claimed to be Restoration members. Go and check their slogans. You will not find anything restoration.

“I beat my chest to say it. You cannot become Governor when you have abandoned Restoration. Is that the way to go? We will continue to rescue, sustain and transform. That is the way to go.

“We will continue to restore them. Sustain them and transform them. Because without transformation, we cannot remodel. There is no newness. That is why we are onward Restoration Campaign Organization.”

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