The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State has debunked rumour making the rounds following a media report over the weekend that many of its members were planning to decamp to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.
A socio-political movement group, The Bayelsa Great House, was reported in the media to have said that a former chieftain of the PDP in the state, Col. Sam Inokoba (rtd), who recently defected to the APC was wooing key members of the PDP to join him in the APC .
Reacting in a statement Sunday in Yenagoa, State Secretary of the PDP, Hon. Godspower Keku, described such claim as false and misleading, stressing that the leadership of the party was solidly committed to the re-election of Governor Seriake Dickson.
He said that Inokoba does not have the political strength ascribed to him in the report to swing the support of PDP members to the APC, adding that the former PDP chairman and others who left the party were selfish politicians.
“We wish to state categorically that contrary to a newspaper report, no member of the Bayelsa State Working Committee of the PDP or the generality of our members across the state were considering leaving the party.
“We want to make it abundantly clear that contrary to the propaganda, all the organs of the party at all levels are intact and are fully behind the re-election of Governor Dickson.
“Inokoba and his phantom Bayelsa Great House are political charlatans who will be disgraced in due time”, Keku said.
The PDP secretary berated Inokoba for arrogating to himself political powers and influence he does not possess, noting that he (Inokoba) cannot even win his ward and as such leaving the PDP was a good riddance.
He maintained that all the while Inokoba held sway as chairman of the PDP in the state, many members of the party complained without ceasing of his poor leadership style.
“We were merely managing him until he was fingered in corruption and anti-party activities, because we always knew that he was a mole for the opposition and therefore we were not surprised he acted the way he did.
“His leaving the party has no effect whatsoever on the PDP as time will soon tell. Instead it is a blessing”, Keku stated.
The PDP secretary used the medium to clarify the reported resignation of a former special adviser to the governor, Chief Rufus Abadi, to join the APC, saying it was a cheap propaganda to mislead the public.
He said the former adviser in question had earlier been sacked by the governor and replaced but only rushed to the radio station to announce his resignation which, he said, smacked off mischief.
“The said special adviser, who only few days ago rushed to a radio station to announce his resignation did so, after he has been sacked and replaced by the Governor.
“He has since been replaced with Hon. Austin Adigio who is now the substantive Special Adviser to the Governor on Inter-governmental Affairs, so his action is a mere mischief”, Keku said.
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