Amid celebrations in Governor Duoye Diri of Bayelsa state camp that he will officially defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, on Monday, a former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Yekini Nabena has slammed the governor for trying to cause crisis in the party.
Nabena, who spoke in Abuja, the nation’s capital at the weekend said Governor Diri is trying to destroy the existing APC structure before he moved into the party.
The magazine reports that Governor Diri is set to officially join the ruling party more than two weeks after he dumped the opposition PDP. Diri said on Sunday that he took the decision to join the APC in the overall interest of the people of the state.
The governor is expected to be received into the APC on Monday at an elaborate ceremony in Yenagoa, the state capital where Vice President Kassim Shettima and other chieftains of the APC, including the National Chairman Prof. Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda are being expected.
However, the governor’s defection appears not to have been well received by some APC leaders who have kicked against it.
Expressing his worry that the governor is joining the party, Nabena blamed Diri for being responsible for the recent problem affecting some members of the party, including the alleged arrest of NNDC Managing Director, Samuel Ogbuku over a rumoured botched coup plot.
Nabena stressed that Governor is aiming to destroy some member’s of the party and its leadership so that he can take over the party, adding that the state governor is not bringing any value into the APC.
“We have traced the recent happenings in Bayelsa state to Governor Douye Diri’s camp, especially the arrest rumours of NDDC Managing Director, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku (PhD),” Nabena said.
“The plan is to destroy the existing organs and prominent members of the party before he (Governor Diri) formally decamps APC on Monday.
“But up till now, we have not found an answer to the question of what Governor Douye Diri is bringing to the APC. This is a Governor that his Deputy is not defecting with him. Hence, he is plotting to impeach the deputy governor.
“This is a governor that even some State House of Assembly members have rejected. About 90 percent of the serving National Assembly members, including Senator Dickson and other high profile lawmakers are not on the same page with him.
“This is a governor who is not in control of his local constituency, not to talk of his entire Senatorial District. We ask Governor Douye Diri again to tell Nigerians who is running after him or what he is running after?”
Diri owes his ascension as the state’s chief executive to the PDP under which he won a seat into the Nigeria Senate before becoming governor twice.
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