Bayelsa: PDP Chieftains Warn Dickson Against Sylva’s New Strategy

By Asolo Eyedoude

Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have cautioned Governor Serikae Dickson to review his options for the governorship ticket following what they described as the changing dynamics arising from the appointment of Mr. Timipire Sylva as a minister.

The PDP stakeholders while observing that Sylva had positioned himself to back a popular All Progressives Congress, APC aspirant from Southern Ijaw, the stakeholders said the PDP could no longer go with Dickson’s preference of Senator Douye Diri who they claimed is not popular enough to match Sylva’s choice.

The stakeholders, under the auspices of PDP Monitoring Group (PMG), said initially they were not against Senator Diri but having weighed the change in the polity following the inauguration of former Governor Timipre Sylva as the Minister of State for Petroleum, PDP would not win the main election with the senator as its flag bearer.

The group, in a statement by its Coordinator J.P. Emulade, said Senator Diri was no longer an option because Chief Sylva was backing an oil magnate from Southern Ijaw, David Lyon for the ticket of the APC.

Emulade said thousands of PDP members including members of his group, who are mainly from the restoration caucus, would abandon the PDP if the leader of the caucus and Governor of the state, Seriake Dickson, insisted on Senator Diri.

He said the best decision the caucus should take to counter the APC was to give the PDP ticket to an aspirant with popularity and influence from Southern Ijaw to neutralise the personality of Lyon.

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