By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: A former Deputy Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Hon. Yekini Nabena, on Friday declared that the Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, is not going to be bringing any worth to the social gathering, alleging that he’s as an alternative attempting to destabilise the present management construction to have his manner.
Based on Nabena, Governor Diri is predicted to formally defect to the APC on Monday and is “working to destroy the prevailing management of the social gathering earlier than leaping ship.”
Talking with journalists in Abuja, the Bayelsa-born APC chieftain mentioned Governor Diri’s deliberate defection wouldn’t yield the sort of political impression he is likely to be anticipating.
He additionally accused loyalists of the governor of stoking arrest rumours linking the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Growth Fee, NDDC, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, with regard to an alleged coup plot.
Nabena described the arrest rumours as a deliberate try and smear Ogbuku’s popularity and destabilise the prevailing management construction of the APC in Bayelsa State, allegedly to pave the way in which for Governor Diri’s deliberate defection to the social gathering.
A bit of the media had not too long ago reported that the NDDC boss was arrested over an alleged coup plot.
He argued that the Bayelsa governor “will be a part of APC empty-handed” since most key figures within the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Get together PDP weren’t defecting with him, not like what not too long ago occurred in Delta and Enugu states.
The APC stalwart, due to this fact, urged Nigerians to ignore the pretend experiences about Ogbuku’s alleged arrest.
He mentioned, “Let me put it on file that we’re not saying the Governor shouldn’t be a part of the APC, it’s a democracy and he has proper to affix any social gathering. The very fact we is not going to take is for him to destroy some folks and the prevailing management of the APC in Bayelsa state as a result of he needs to take full management of the social gathering.
“We’ve got traced the current happenings in Bayelsa state to Governor Douye Diri’s camp, particularly the arrest rumours of NDDC Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku.
“The plan is to destroy the prevailing organs and distinguished members of the social gathering earlier than he (Governor Diri) previously decamps to APC on Monday.
“However up until now, we have now not discovered a solution to the query of what Governor Douye Diri is bringing to the APC. It is a Governor that his Deputy is just not defecting with him, therefore he’s plotting to question the Deputy Governor.
“It is a Governor that even some State Home of Meeting members have rejected. About 90 per cent of the serving Nationwide Meeting members, together with Senator Dickson and different high-profile lawmakers, aren’t on the identical web page with him.
“It is a Governor who is just not accountable for his native constituency, to not speak of his complete Senatorial District. We ask Governor Douye Diri once more to inform Nigerians who’s operating after him or what’s he operating after?”
Nabena additional claimed that a number of distinguished Bayelsa PDP figures stay aligned with Ogbuku’s management and are extra inclined to affix President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda by the NDDC boss “on the proper time.”
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