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PDP Hopeful Of Bayelsa Guber Poll Victory Amid Defections

PDP Hopeful Of Bayelsa Guber Poll Victory Amid Defections

The gale of defections notwithstanding, the Bayelsa chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed optimism of winning the November 16, 2019 governorship election in the state.

The state party chairman, Chief Moses Cleopas, who dismissed those that had cross-carpeted to the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in a statement yesterday in Yenagoa, argued that the Bayelsa people and the party’s followers were not with the defectors, whom he described as persons lacking the “requisite character, principle, and integrity.”

More than five aides of Governor Seriake Dickson have so far resigned their appointments and left the party in protest …