Rumours making the round that mass defection looms in the Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP if President Goodluck Jonathan fails to support the suspension of the state chairman of the party, Col. Sam Inokoba, retrd, was dismissed, weekend, by a pro-PDP group in the state, the Aboriginal PDP in Bayelsa State.
DAILY POST recalls that some PDP stakeholders last week threatened to defect to an opposition party, if President Jonathan fails to approve the suspension of Inokoba as the state chairman of the party.
In a statement issued by its chairman, Chief Ebi Erepam, the group said the threat of mass defection by some members of PDP to an opposition party was not only non-existent but a ruse, calculated at hoodwinking the national leadership of the party into endorsing the political ambitions of the persons that instigated the said suspension of the state chairman.
The group called on the PDP national working committee to disregard the threat, adding that the so-called major stakeholders that issued the said threat were confused.
The group said: “In one breath they said it was the state working committee of the party that suspended the PDP chairman and in another, they said it was the State Executive Committee, SEC, that suspended him.”
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