The governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson, Wednesday, passed a vote of absolute confidence on candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state ahead of the forthcoming elections, urging the people to vote for them.
According to Dickson, the flag bearers of the PDP running for seats in the National Assembly and the state House of Assembly were better than candidates of the opposition parties.
The governor, who turned 49 on Wednesday, disclosed this during a special live interview programme on radio and television in Yenagoa to mark his birthday.
He said unlike what obtains in the opposition parties, there were no cultists, killers, criminals and destroyers of societal values among the PDP candidates.
Dickson said: “All the candidates of PDP in Bayelsa should be supported and be voted for because I know that they are better than all the candidates of all the other parties. “You don’t see cult elements as candidates of our party. You don’t see people who have destroyed and killed people; you don’t see people who have committed various crimes against their people and their state as candidates of our party”.
He then recommended the PDP flag bearers to the state electorates, stressing that they were proven personalities who deserve every support and encouragement.
He used the opportunity to warn those he described as “opposition elements within the PDP” whom he said were working against the collective interest of the party by supporting opposition candidates.
Dickson accused them of engaging in anti-party activities, urging them to retrace their steps and close ranks to rally support for PDP candidates in the elections.
On the collection of Permanent Voter Cards, he said that 85 per cent of the PVCs had been collected in the state.
Urging eligible voters who were yet to collect their PVCs to do so, Dickson declared that it was their power to determine who leads them at various levels.
“In this state, at the last briefing that I received on this, (distribution of PVCs), the collection rate of PVC is about 85 percent,” he said.
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