By Gideon Njoku
For the PDP family in Bayelsa State, it is celebration time. One of their own, former President Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR, has, publicly, endorsed the party’s Governorship candidate in the November 16 Governorship election, Senator Duoye Diri.
The former President, who is the most high profile member of the PDP, did not only endorsed Diri, he also invited everybody who has the interest of Bayelsa state at heart to attend the Governorship rally billed for November 6, in Yenogoa.
Tagged the mother of all rallies, Jonathan, a former Governor of the State, is expected to be the Host at the rally.
Jonathan endorsed Diri and made the call when PDP Governors visited him, Friday night, at his Abuja residence.
An elated PDP Chieftain in the State quipped: “A combination of Jonathan and Governor Dickson is too much. It is one nobody can ignore. It is too formidable”.
With the public endorsement, it is expected that a few PDP members who recently decamped to the opposition APC, will make an about-turn.
In the past few days, many of them have been making overtures to return to the PDP.
Already, the former Commissioner for Mineral Resources who resigned from the party a few days ago, Markson Feghegha, has returned to the party.
In a statement he personally signed, Feghagha said: “I have reconsidered my decision. I will remain in the party and the government.”
On his relationship with Dickson, he said they had met, and discussed, attributing his earler decision to resign, as a problem of communication gap. “Over the years, we have shared bonds of friendship and mystic cord of brotherhood which cannot be sacrificed on the altar of political exigencies”, Feghagha, who immediately took a photograph with Dickson, to the admiration of all present, said.
