{"id":83140,"date":"2021-07-04T21:47:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T20:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=83140"},"modified":"2021-07-04T21:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T20:47:33","slug":"bayelsa-governor-diri-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/bayelsa-governor-diri-speaks-on-dumping-pdp-for-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayelsa: Governor Diri Speaks On Dumping PDP For APC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bayelsa State Governor, Duoye Diri has debunked claims that he is planning to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n

The Governor in a statement on Sunday through his Director-General, New Media, Mr. Kola Oredipe said Diri is fully committed to the PDP.<\/p>\n

The declaration by the Governor\u2019s camp follows a call by a former Deputy Governor of the State,\u00a0Chief Peremobowei Ebebi, at the weekend, during a stakeholders meeting of the APC in Ekeremor Local Government Area, for Diri to jump ship and join the APC as some other Governors have done.<\/p>\n

But the Bayelsa Governor said it will be a political suicide to dump the PDP for APC in Bayelsa, further describing Ebebi as a joker.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt will be a political suicide to leave the only party that exists in Bayelsa State to join a party that has no root, structure in the state.<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\u201cEbebi must be a joker. We know him for many acts of theatrics and at this time too, it is not different. He has confessed that the Governor is not doing badly meaning that the PDP is on the right track, why then go to join a party that has taken Nigeria many years back?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Governor\u2019s media aide rather called on members of the opposition APC in Bayelsa to join hands with the PDP and Diri to make the state better.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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