The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in Bayelsa state has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to arrest
Heineken Lokpobiri, Minister of State for Agriculture.
Bayelsa state governor, Seriake
Dickson had accused Lokpobiri and former governor ,Timipre Sylva, of sponsoring
mayhem in some parts of the state and some riverine communities in the
neighbouring Delta.
PDP state chairman, Chief Moses
Cleopas, in a statement, said the party was disturbed that Lokpobiri continues
to maintain a sordid reputation that seems inseparably linked to the horrors of
violence in Bayelsa state.
“Only recently, the governor òf
Bayelsa state, Seriake Dickson, alerted the president, the security community
and indeed Nigerians to the dangerous activities of Lopkobiri and other APC
chieftains, which without doubt are inimical to peace, security and development
of our dear state”, he said.
“Ordinarily, Nigerians who are
agitated and troubled by the grave allegation would have expected a reassuring
response from somebody of the status of a minister of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria. However, Lokpobiri’s response has only deepened the worry about the
specter of violence being masterminded by him and his cohorts in Bayelsa.
“His defence, at best, cuts the
image of a guilty man in desperation to reconcile contradictions with a
contrived appearance of innocence! In his pitiable response to the governor’s
claim that he was behind the heinous activities of a deadly militant, Kareowei,
who was fingered for perpetrating heinous activities at the waterways of
Ekeremor and some communities Delta state, Lokpobiri denied ever meeting him.
“Obviously prodded by his stained
conscience, Lokpobiri lied that the militant leader (Kareowei), even threatened
him at Ekeremor by shooting into the river when he (Lokpobiri) visited home in
January. This explanation and the contradiction in Lokpobiri’s Defence only strengthens
the suspicion of complicity in acts of destabilization against the state.”
The party accused the minister of
failing to use his position to improve the lot of Bayelsans, alleging that he
has used his time in office to cast aspersions on the state government.
It added that it is a shame that
all Lokpobiri has done is remind the people of his presence in the
orchestration of violence and other acts against the progress of Bayelsa state.
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We don't have any security apparatus again in this country, Oh God come and help Nigeria.
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