Dickson’s ex-chief of staff dumps PDP for APC
Ikiogha, a founding member of the PDP, was until recently described as a trusted and dependable associate of the governor.
He was one of the brains behind the emergence of Dickson as a governor in 2012 through his group, the New Nigerian Initiative (NNI).
The Nation gathered that the relationship between Ikiogha and Dickson went sour when the governor in controversial circumstances removed him from Government House and redeployed him to the state’s liaison office, Abuja.
Ikiogha’s supporters argued that the redeployment was aimed at taking him away from mainstream Bayelsa politics.
But the former chief of staff, who spoke at a news conference in Yenagoa on Thursday, said he left the PDP with thousands of his supporters.
Ikiogha said he found a home in the APC since the day he decided to join the fold of the progressives.
He said: “My constituents, the masses for whom I have lived and to whom I dedicate all my political victories, have agreed that I should leave the PDP.
“I recall in one of the meetings that led to the final decision to quit, how my supporters reminded me that the PDP I helped to form and nurture was no more the same.
“They said some hawks had hijacked the party, making it very glaring that it was a house in tatters, a divided house made of men who were only driven by their selfish ambition.
“Sadly, the PDP has badly drifted from a well organised family to a congregation of betrayers and deceits. It is clear that the party is gradually marching for destruction. Unfolding events have proved me right and I am happy I have left.”
Ikiogha urged persons in the PDP government not to engage in a witch-hunt against those of them that chose to leave the party or carry out hate campaigns against them.
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