Bayelsa state Governor, Senator Douye Diri, n Tuesday asked all his political appointees that are nursing ambition to stand for election in 2023 to resign from their [positions and focus on their election tasks
This is even as he called on PDP members to stop heating up the polity, stressing that when the time comes the PDP structure in the state will decide those to contest elections.
Diri who stated this when he visited his community, Sampou, Kolokuma/ Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa during the local government annual thanksgiving, spoke against the backdrop of recent political skirmishes involving some cabinet members and a serving lawmaker in the state.
He advised stakeholders who are heating up the polity in the state because of their ambition to tread carefully as his government would not condone political thuggery and such nefarious acts, while emphasizing that the ruling PDP in the state had a structure that must be followed strictly through nominations and elections when the time is right and warned anyone with a negative agenda to a rethink.
“Now we are in a political year. Some have begun to scramble to become members of the National Assembly or the House of Assembly. I have received several calls that some people have started having processions while some are preparing thugs. That is not what Bayelsa State wants.
“We have a political party structure, particularly those of us in the PDP. We opened our two arms to receive everybody. But thereafter we will sit down, consult and have a credible process of nominating who goes to the House of Assembly or National Assembly and who gets what, how, why and when.
“I earlier told members of my cabinet who have interest in any political offices to put in their resignation and I mean it. So, I’m using this occasion to re-emphasise it.
“This goes to all other political appointees be they Special Advisers, Technical Advisers or Senior Special Assistants. If you want to contest for any political office, please put in your resignation.”
