Don’t Be Carried Away By Politicians' Lies, Jonathan Advises Youths

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday stormed Yenagoa to lend his support to the aspiration of Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson to go for a second term in office, even as he advised the youth not to be carried away by lies of politicians but to assess what those aspiring for elective offices have done in the past.

This is coming as the Timipre Sylva Campaign Organisation has condemned as disheartening the advice by Governor Dickson that the people should tie up uniformed personnel if the people think they are doing wrong things. Sylva is the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate for the election coming up on Saturday, December 5.

Jonathan said most politicians are men of many words and as a result tell many lies to woo voters. He stated this during the presentation of Peoples Democratic Party flag to Governor Dickson at a grand finale of Dickson campaign in Yenagoa, state capital, yesterday.

The sports complex was filled to capacity as party chieftains, former President Goodluck Jonathan, Chairman of PDP Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, National Chairman of the PDP, Chief Uche Secondus and the Deputy Governor of Ebonyi state graced the occasion.

Jonathan said a vote for Dickson in next Saturday’s poll is a vote for liberation, development, security and peace, stressing that the PDP remained the party for the people.“So, for the Bayelsa young people, do not be carried away by politicians. Politicians are people of many words, they go to so many places, talking to so many people, telling so many lies.

On his part, Dickson told the opposition party that there was no vacancy in Bayelsa. He expressed confidence that he would win the forthcoming election by 99 per cent, saying that his main rival, Sylva of the APC should celebrate if he is able to win his ward in Okpoama, Brass during the poll.

But in reaction to the PDP rally, the APC in a statement by the director of publicity of the Sylva campaign Organisation, Chief Nathan Egba posited that “virtually all the speakers at the rally were exhibiting signs of panic in realisation of impending defeat as they kept on making unfounded allegations against Sylva and the APC in a bid to whip up voters sentiment against him.”

Egba lamented that Dickson’s call for the attack on security operatives is the height of desperation, and that this effort to encourage the breakdown of law and order should be noted by the security services.