A former Acting Governor of Bayelsa State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Nestor Binabo, has alleged that Governor Seriake Dickson was plotting to eliminate him.
Binabo, who spoke in Yenagoa on Monday, said Dickson, while addressing groups at an earlier event held at the Banquet Hall, declared that he (Binabo) was his greatest enemy in the Sagbama Local Government Area.
Binabo and Dickson are from the same Sagbama zone; he handed over to Dickson in 2012.
Binabo said he decided to cry out following attacks on APC leaders in the state by suspected thugs of the PDP, which had already claimed the life of an APC chieftain and left many others injured.
His words: “Dickson said that an Okunbiri man who has joined the APC is his greatest enemy in Sagbama. Everybody knows that I am from Okunbiri, close to Dickson’s community in Sagbama. I am an APC stalwart and since l joined APC, Dickson has been after me.
“This is the second time he is declaring me his arch enemy. I don’t know what he meant by declaring me his arch enemy. First of all, I handed power over to him. I conducted a peaceful election and spent the resources to make him a governor. So, I don’t see why Governor Seriake Dickson sees me as his arch enemy.
“It is not a surprise to me at all, as a former Deputy Speaker, a Speaker, and an acting governor of this state, having moved to APC and more so from his own local government, he knows he has failed. And I think that is the primary reason he has continuously declared me his arch enemy.”
Reacting, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, described Binabo’s allegation as ‘callous’.
A statement by its Director of Publicity, Restoration Campaign Organisation, Jonathan Obuebite, noted that there was no time Dickson addressed any gathering where he threatened that “Nestor Binabo was his greatest enemy as alleged.”
Acordding to him, any attempt to link the governor to such allegation was not only wicked but callous political orchestration, which should be condemned.
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