Ahead of the November 16 Governorship Election in
Bayelsa state, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress APC, Comrade
Adams Oshiomhole has vowed defeat for the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the
state but said the APC would not condescend into joining issues with the
outgoing governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson.
Oshiomohle spoke Thursday while addressing the
Bayelsa APC stakeholders as well as aggrieved governorship aspirants during a
reconciliation meeting at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja.
He noted; “Let me use this opportunity to reply
directly to my Friend, Gov. Dickson of Bayelsa. I think he has allowed his
fears, lack self-confidence, the imminent defeat that awaits him and his party
to overcloud his judgement as to resort to the use of inelegant language and
uncouth statement to describe one of his own and a fellow citizen of Bayelsa.
When a governor describes one of his own purely on
account of his political differences, using the name of terrorists and such
things like that, then he has missed it already. “And I can understand his
fears, if people who go to borrow labels and assume that they are the leaders
of the Ijaws and that they are the lions when they see the real and authentic
lion, they are sure to be afraid.
“So APC rejects and condemn in strong terms the raw
language unbecoming of a governor, by a man I otherwise admired, the way he has
described our candidate. We will not come to his own level.
On this occasion, we will invoke a popular statement
made by Michelle Obama at the peak of the last presidential election in the US
when she said ‘when they go low, we fly high’. So when Dickson goes low, we
will fly high. We will not join him in using gutter language to describe
neither his office nor his person, or even their candidate who is about to be
defeated”.
Oshiomhole also added that the APC has a better
candidate, saying the quality of its candidate makes Gov. Dickson jittery. “We
recognize he has a right to be selected by his party, we believe our candidate
is better than his candidate and we believe he will provide, better,
popular-driven, people-oriented governance, not elitist governance for the
people of Bayelsa state.
“That is why around the world, I don’t know if you
know how many professors have governed America, Britain, France and Israel or
any of the democracies. It is the extent to which you can connect to the
ordinary person, you share their vision and pain, you grow from the community
and have been as an ordinary person like them.
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