{"id":33972,"date":"2014-12-06T05:01:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=33972"},"modified":"2014-12-06T05:01:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T04:01:11","slug":"national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"National Assembly Primaries; Gov Dickson Tasks Contestants On Non Violence, Free And Fair Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,\u00a0prepares\u00a0for this weekend\u2019s National Assembly primaries, Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has reiterated his call on delegates and contestants to eschew acts of violence and play the game according to the rules.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Governor, who made the call in a statement, urged the various contestants to put in their best, while also allowing the will of God to prevail, as power comes from the Creator alone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bayelsa State Chief Executive further advised youths not to allow themselves to be used by desperate contestants to cause a breach of the peace and be watchful not to allow hoodlums and criminal minded persons from\u00a0neighbouring\u00a0states into their midst to create insecurity and wanton destruction of lives and property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, only delegates and the contestants will be allowed into the various venues, stressing that, the security agencies have been put on full alert to deal with any acts of lawlessness and brigandage across the State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While advising non delegates and supporters of the various contestants to steer clear of the venues of the primaries, Hon. Dickson equally enjoined individuals or groups that may not be satisfied with the outcome of the primaries to seek redress, using the already laid down procedures of the PDP, instead of taking the laws into their hands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further called on the delegates to vote according to their preference and conviction and not be intimidated by any individual or individuals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Governor Dickson however, pointed out that, the Government was privy to plans by some incumbent office holders to harm, maim and even kill to achieve their selfish motives, stressing that, the Government and people of the State would hold such persons responsible for any loss of lives and property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He used the opportunity to commend Bayelsans for their peaceful conduct, especially in last weekend\u2019s State House of Assembly primaries and urged them to maintain the current wave of peace and tranquility across the State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Daniel Iworiso-Markson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Bayelsa State<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,\u00a0prepares\u00a0for this weekend\u2019s National Assembly primaries, Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has reiterated his call on delegates and contestants to eschew acts of violence&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>National Assembly Primaries; Gov Dickson Tasks Contestants On Non Violence, Free And Fair Contest - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National Assembly Primaries; Gov Dickson Tasks Contestants On Non Violence, Free And Fair Contest - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,\u00a0prepares\u00a0for this weekend\u2019s National Assembly primaries, Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has reiterated his call on delegates and contestants to eschew acts of violence&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-12-06T04:01:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dickson1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"National Assembly Primaries; Gov Dickson Tasks Contestants On Non Violence, Free And Fair Contest\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-06T04:01:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/\"},\"wordCount\":355,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dickson1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/\",\"name\":\"National Assembly Primaries; Gov Dickson Tasks Contestants On Non Violence, Free And Fair Contest - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dickson1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-06T04:01:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dickson1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dickson1.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":400},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"National Assembly Primaries; Gov Dickson Tasks Contestants On Non Violence, Free And Fair Contest\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"National Assembly Primaries; Gov Dickson Tasks Contestants On Non Violence, Free And Fair Contest - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"National Assembly Primaries; Gov Dickson Tasks Contestants On Non Violence, Free And Fair Contest - Pointblank News","og_description":"As the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,\u00a0prepares\u00a0for this weekend\u2019s National Assembly primaries, Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has reiterated his call on delegates and contestants to eschew acts of violence&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2014-12-06T04:01:11+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dickson1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"National Assembly Primaries; Gov Dickson Tasks Contestants On Non Violence, Free And Fair Contest","datePublished":"2014-12-06T04:01:11+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/"},"wordCount":355,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dickson1.jpg","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/","name":"National Assembly Primaries; Gov Dickson Tasks Contestants On Non Violence, Free And Fair Contest - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dickson1.jpg","datePublished":"2014-12-06T04:01:11+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dickson1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dickson1.jpg","width":750,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/national-assembly-primaries-gov-dickson-tasks-contestants-non-violence-free-fair-contest\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"National Assembly Primaries; Gov Dickson Tasks Contestants On Non Violence, Free And Fair Contest"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}