AS political gauge increase in Bayelsa State preparatory to the December gubernatorial election, incumbent governor, Henry Seriake Dickson has expressed optimism that his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stands in good stead to win the poll.
This is despite the fact that a sitting State Chairman of the party, Col Sam Inokoba (rtd) and several other chieftains including former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Timi Alaibe and Senator Henieken Lokpobiri, dumped the PDP for the rival All Progressive Congress (APC).
Being the home state of the former President Goodluck Jonathan who carried and still carries enough influence in the political scene and having been in the grip of the PDP since the beginning of the present democratic dispensation in 1999, Bayelsa is expected to be the stronghold of the party.
Even with the APC broom sweeping the country’s political space, the PDP in Bayelsa is expected to be one of the last states to be counted on the side of the opposition but events in the last two weeks are giving ominous signals that all is not well within the PDP family.
*The Guardian
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