PDP defectors are greedy - Dickson

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has lambasted some members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party that have defected to the All Progressives Congress, saying their actions are motivated by greed.


The governor also criticised some defectors and a body known as the Bayelsa Peoples Consultative Assembly that accused his administration of high-handedness, a statement by his media aide, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said on Sunday.

Gale of defections has hit the PDP with Saturday's cross-carpet of Dickson's former Chief of Staff, Chief Diekivie Ikiogha, and some leaders of the PDP.

Ikiogha had told a crowd that thronged the Kpansia open field of his formal declaration for the APC and that the PDP lacked internal democracy and that it is a party full of betrayals and deceits.

BPCA had recently expressed dissatisfaction with Dickson over alleged high-handedness in running affairs of the state.

The group had wondered whether the strategic interest of Bayelsa State could still be served.