Jonathan's Meeting With PDP In Otueke Fails; Alamieyeseigha, Dickson Walked Out

It seems Governor Seriake Dickson is going to defeat Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, who is particularly bent on removing from office Bayelsa State governor by ensuring he doesn't get PDP ticket.

The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP held an emergency meeting at the country home of Goodluck Jonathan in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, to wade into the crisis rocking the state chapter of the party.

But to the shock of many, both the state governor, Seriake Dickson, and former governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, were ordered out of the venue of the meeting.

At the meeting which looked into the recommendations of the National Peace Committee for the state, the acting Chairman of the party’s BoT, Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed, called on all feuding members and stakeholders of the party in the state to close ranks, while also upturning the decision of the state chapter of the party to expel some prominent members from the party.

President Jonathan was said to been scandalised by the action of the party at the state level, adding that the party cannot afford a major crisis less than five months to the governorship election.

At the meeting which was held at the Jonathan country home amid tight security, some uninvited prominent persons, including those who had already defected to the APC, were walked out of the venue.

Some loyalists of the expelled party leaders, including the embattled Chairman of the PDP in the state, Col. Sam Inokoba, claimed that the Chairman of the state reconciliation committee and first governor of the state, Alameiyeiseigha and other party members were barred from attending the meeting due to non-membership of the party BoT.

But Col. Inokoba and Senator Emmanuel Paulker were allowed into the meeting.

Meanwhile, Governor Dickson is strategizing with majority of the PDP delegates already on his side.