The YFPC, loyal to the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Tiwei Orunimighe, however, urged the governor to take the honourable path of backing out of the poll if he was scared of defeat.
The group's advice was contained in a communique signed by its National Coordinator, Aye Itare; Secretary, Mr. Jonathan Okwu and Public Relations Officer, Mr. Amamboha John, issued after its meeting in Yenagoa on Tuesday.
It alleged that Dickson had demonstrated he was jittery going by the attacks his office had been sponsoring against politicians that had signified intention to contest the election against him, not minding the political platform.
The YFPC said, "We as civilized Bayelsa youths, hereby, admonish Governor Seriake Dickson that governing the people is not a do-or-die affair.
"So, if he is not sure of his fate in the forth coming governorship election slated for December 5 or if he is too scared of the calibre of personalities coming to the poll against him, he should do the needful - leave office honourably by withdrawing from the race.
"We as youths will gladly forgive him of some of the things he could not get right as a governor.
"Our admonition to Dickson is hinged on the fact that no amount of insults, willful misrepresentation of facts, innuendos nor plain attacks or derogatory remarks by him or his supporters on the persons of APC leaders in the state such as Tiwei Orunimighe, former Governor Timipre Sylva, Chief Ndutimi Alaibe, Chief Diekivie Ikiogha, or any other governorship aspirants can make him return in 2016."
It further advised the governor to toe the suggested path of honour instead of listening to his aides, who would not tell him the home truth that his days in Government House were numbered.
The group counselled him to visit online posts on him personally to aggregate the people's pulse about his government's popularity instead of relying on sycophants who were afraid of telling him the truth about his dwindling popularity.
The YFPC regretted the last Saturday's clash between the officials of state's environmental sanitation and the convoy of Orunimighe, alleging that the whole episode was a failed attempt on the life of the APC chair.
The group called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of various security agencies to delve into the Bayelsa situation to ensure that the government did not use the security resources at its disposal to maim and kill innocent citizens to achieve political aims.
But the state government in its reaction to last Saturday's incident said it was the security personnel attached to Orunimighe that allegedly opened fire in an attempt to escape arrest from men of the Bayelsa State Environmental Sanitation Board.
The Chairman, BSESB, Oboku Offorji, had, at a press briefing after the incident, raised the alarm over possible breakdown of law and order in the state as the governorship election approached.
He alleged that Orunimighe flouted the state sanitation law by driving in a convoy without permit during the period of the exercise but were stopped by sanitation officers.
5 comments:
Nigerians sure knows how to insult their leaders
Bayelsa needs a new face I learned Dickson is not working.
Dickson is in trouble
Very true...that's whyy apc is gaining more grounds
I dnt like this man from genesis...imagine,,with oil Money,,the state can't even compete with enugu state
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