Bayelsa: Diri Campaign Accuse APC Of Assassination Attack On Dickson’s Aide

The Senator Douye Diri Campaign Organization has condemned in strong terms the assassination attempt on the Special Adviser to Governor Dickson on Youth Matters, Mr. Bobolayefa Owoupele, by thugs of the All Progressives Congress in Yenagoa on Thursday.

The Campaign Organization, in statement by the Director, Media and Publicity Committee, Hon. Jonathan Obuebite, stated that the armed APC thugs launched a ferocious attack on Owoupele at a car park in Opolo, around 8am in Yenagoa .

The Campaign Organization said that the thugs who, obviously, did not want to attract the attention of people to their nefarious plot inflicted deep bottle injuries on the head, neck and arm of the Governor’s influential aide while threatening him with a gun.

The Organisation expressed deep worry over what it claimed as the penchant of the APC leadership and their supporters in Bayelsa for violence and bloodletting .

The Organization said that the Governor’s Aide is lying critically ill at the Hospital in Yenagoa.

The Campaign Organization called on the Nigeria Police, the Directorate State Service and other security agencies to investigate those behind the dastardly act with a view to bringing the perpetrators to book.

The Campaign Organization stressed that the only way to ensure sanity in the political campaign and contest in Bayelsa was a firm resolve on the part of the security agencies to prevent unnecessary violence and criminality in the state.

The Organisation said that those who witnessed the attack can attest to the fact that the thugs who attacked the Adviser on Youth Matters were putting on fez caps and tea shirts of the APC.

It was further stated that the APC assassins asked the injure aide if he was the particular aide o Governor Dickson on Youth Affairs engrossed in mobilization against them.

The Diri Campaign Organization observed that the quest for political control should not be abused to be a license to violate the laws of the land.

“The Senator Douye Diri Campaign Organization has received with shock the unprovoked attack and attempted assassination on our member and Special Adviser to Governor Dickson on Youth Affairs, Hon, Bobolayefa Owoupele by Armed thugs working for the APC.

The armed thugs numbering five who were wearing branded t-shirts òf the APC, and the party’s fez cap, laid an ambush for Owoupele at a car wash at Opolo, Yenagoa, where he was attacked around 8am on Thursday.

“We wish to condemn in the strongest possible terms, the primitive penchant of the APC in Bayelsa State for needless aggression and violence as their strongest point in the ongoing political contest in the state.

“A political party with a genuine desire for the development of the society would place the requisite emphasis on the sanctity of human life rather than the execution of a barbaric plot to spread paranoia in the society a month to the gubernatorial election.

“It is indeed worrisome that the APC in Bayelsa has once again confirmed our repeated warning to the watching Nigerian society and the International Community that they a nest of angry politicians stockpiling arms for thugs to slaughter the innocent in their desperation for political control.

“It is becoming clearer as we move closer to the date of the election that the APC has failed to see the bold line between self delusion and the reality of the crushing defeat awaiting them at the poll come November 16, 2019.

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