AHEAD of next month general elections, the All Progressives Congress, (APC) candidate for Ogbia federal constituency in Bayelsa State, Chief Samuel Ogbuku, has cautioned a Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) group, against maligning the person of the former president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan.
Honourable Ogbuku in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja accused the Ogbia Renaissance and Stakeholders of alleging that the former President was sponsoring the APC candidate for the election, as against the PDP candidate. Ogbuku noted that the motive of the group was to create disaffection for Dr Jonathan.
The statement read in part:” It has come to our knowledge of some recent publications sponsored by the so-called PDP Restoration Government of Bayelsa State using a faceless group, Ogbia Renaissance and Stakeholders in Bayelsa State, ostensibly with the aim of distracting the APC family in Ogbia Local Government.
“In the said publication, it was alleged that former President Goodluck Jonathan and wife were involved in anti-party activities by supporting members of other political parties particularly the APC candidate for Ogbia Federal Constituency, Chief Samuel Ogbuku all PDP candidates, except the PDP Presidential candidate.
“Ordinarily, we wouldn’t have dignified such infantile vituperation with a response, but to put the records in proper perspectives.
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” The age-long antics of the current Restoration Government shows that whenever they cry wolf, they have hatched and perfected a heinous and devilish plan to unleash terror and such other devious machinations against the people of Bayelsa State. We will constantly be on the watch out to checkmate them promptly by exposing their malfeasance.
“It is well known that this Restoration Government thrives on selling dangerous and divisive propaganda especially when it comes to the affairs of Ogbia. One wonders why it would want to destroy Ogbia bearing in mind that it is Ogbia that installed this Government. It is on record that no other Local Government PDP chapter is as fractious and fictionalised as the PDP in Ogbia and this is at the behest of the Restoration Government.
“The Restoration Government ’s imposition of unsuitable candidates on the people of Ogbia for all the elective positions in the forthcoming elections is the sole cause of the current apathy within Ogbia P.D.P, and the Ogbia people have vowed to reject them at the polls. Their fall is indeed irredeemable. Now they are introducing another dimension by dragging the APC into their macabre dance of shame.
“We suspect that these publication are aimed at making APC members distracted and complacent while the Restoration PDP government perfects its rigging strategies to impose their stooges on the Ogbia people causing disaffection between the APC in Ogbia and former President Goodluck Jonathan by making him believe these publications are being orchestrated by the APC to embarrass him at the national level.
“Let it be so expressly stated that we of the APC respect former President Goodluck Jonathan not only as the political leader and father of Ogbia Kingdom but as a true son of Bayelsa State. We know him to be the leader of PDP. Neither he nor his wife has renounced PDP and none has pledged support for any APC candidate in the Ogbia Kingdom since there is no alliance between the two parties at whatever level of the contest. That is why we are particularly bemused at the link of the former first family to our House of Representatives candidate.
“It is repugnant to the APC watching such tirades, vituperations and innuendoes thrown at the person of former President Goodluck Jonathan and his family. The APC, therefore, warns these unholy agents of divisiveness, disaffection and destabilization to desist from their fabricated propaganda and face reality by engaging in the issue-based campaign and find ways of salvaging their fast sinking political ship.
“Therefore, we are using this medium to urge all APC members in Ogbia not to be distracted by such frivolous publication. We will rather encourage our members to focus on our peaceful campaign so far and work harder towards winning all election at the various levels.
“We are further urging all Ogbia people to be watchful and vote out all the agents of division and oppression sponsored by the Restoration PDP who have been directed by their paymaster to humiliate the political Leaders of Ogbia and denigrate the personage of former President Goodluck Jonathan, and further destroy the bond of Brotherhood of the Ogbia people.”
