The Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Seriake Dickson, at the weekend took the battle for his second term to his enemies’ camp in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Dickson at the transparency briefing in Banquet Hall, Yenagoa, revoked contracts awarded by his government to firms owned by the Presidential domestic aide, Mr. Waripamowei Dudafa.
He also terminated the job awarded to the Board Chairman, Federal Polytechnic Ekowe, Bekes Etifa.
Dickson said Dudafa and Etifa who were given construction jobs at Kaiama, Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area, had abandoned them.
The duo are known allies of the First Lady, Patience Jonathan, whose camp has been at the vanguard of campaigns to deny Dickson a second term.
Before terminating the contracts, the governor told his audience that persons fighting him within the PDP are main beneficiaries of his administration.
“A number of them have big contracts which they have abandoned”, he said threatening to revoke more contracts awarded to his opponents.
The governor said the PDP and his government would no longer tolerate characters who were allowed to operate in the state because of their closeness to the President Goodluck Jonathan.
With the exit of Jonathan, Dickson vowed to be more ruthless in dealing with the enemies of his administration.
He appealed to the people of the state not to fall to the antics of persons that they will call the shots in the state if the new Federal Government takes over.
“They are deceiving you people because if a new President comes, he will work with me. We have formal ways we interact with the President”, he said.
He noted that when PDP reigned at the centre, it did not stop other opposition governors from existing in their various states.
Making scathing remarks on persons who left the PDP for the APC, the governor said those persons who moved hoping to get appointments in the new government would be disappointed.
He said he was pained when one of them who hails from Kolo in Ogbia made a remark suggesting that he (Dickson) would soon move to the APC.
He asked the lawmaker not to use his name and his image to build their party saying that their leader lacks the capacity to build a party.
He said: “Our state belong to PDP and the results of elections have shown this. We have demonstrated our capability during the past elections where we won three seats of the senate, five for the House of Representatives and 20 out of 22 declared seats for the State House of Assembly.” The nation
