Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Central Senatorial District of Bayelsa State have started mounting pressure on the former governor of the state, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha to drop his senatorial ambition.
According to the PDP leaders, though the former governor is qualified, he should abandon the ambition to run based on the decision to zone the Bayelsa Central slot to Kolokuma/Opokuma area of the state.
They said the Southern Ijaw axis from which the former governor hails has produced a senator for two tenures.
One of the leaders and senatorial aspirant from Kolokuma/Opokuma, Mr Douye Diri, advised former Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha to drop his senatorial ambition and play the father figure for the younger ones.
Diri who recently resigned as the principal secretary to Governor Seriake Dickson, speaking after the submission of the party’s nomination form at the state party secretariat said that out of the three LGs that make up Bayelsa Central, two LGs – Yenagoa and Southern Ijaw had had shots at the Senate for 16 years with the exception of Kolokuma/Opokuma.
According to him, “for Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, politically speaking, his declaration is actually very wrong.”
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