The Centre for Democracy and
Change (CDC) has warned the Bayelsa State Govenror, Seriake Dickson against
inciting the military and other security agencies to abandon voters in the
ongoing governorship election in the state.
The group was reacting to a claim
by Governor Dickson that the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 6th Division of
the Nigerian Army, was compromising security in favour of the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
The Governor had said that, even
though Gen. Sarham has been transferred to the Nigerian Defence Academy,
Kaduna, he refused to move and waited behind to supervise the use of the Army
to perpetrate heinous electoral crimes and irregularities in the Bayelsa guber
polls.
Reacting, CDC slammed Dickson,
saying he was out to truncate the election that was meant to produce his
successor.
Gbenga Badamosi, Executive
Director of the group in a statement said members of his team are ground in
Bayelsa State and at no time, “did we witness the incidents that the Governor
claimed to have occurred. Remarkably, neither local nor foreign observers have
made any comment as to the conduct of the election along the line that Mr.
Dickson did.”
CDC warned the governor to stop
exposing his people to danger with reckless comments.
The statement reads: “Mr. Dickson
has taken the unprecedented step of a governor calling for the cancellation of
an election even before voting was properly underway. The instances and
incidents he is latching onto to make this questionable call have been proven
as being blown out of proportion, which raises the question of his motives for
attempting to deny Bayelsans of their franchise when they have used the same
instrumentality to keep him office for almost eight years.
“Part of the justification for
this treacherous call by Mr. Dickson is the lumping together of militias with
the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police Force, something that has exposed the
desperation on his part to have his party’s candidate win the election,
possibly in order to install a lackey that will cover his tracks for whatever
unacceptable acts he might have committed in his eight-year rule.
“CDC elections observers are on
ground in Bayelsa state and at no time did we witness the incidents that the
Governor claimed to have occurred. Remarkably, neither local nor foreign
observers have made any comment as to the conduct of the election along the
line that Mr. Dickson did.
“We are concerned that he made
these indicting comments to provoke the army and other security agencies to
abandon the electorates to his militias that have been paid to disrupt the
vote. There have also been reports that the so-called army and police personnel
are the militias that the governor procured fake uniforms for in order to use
them for the agenda that he has now fully activated.
“CDC is aware that the presence
of legitimately deployed Army and other security personnel is the saving grace
in Bayelsa at this electioneering moment as thugs loyal to politicians had made
up their minds to destroy our democracy by sabotaging the governorship
election.
“We consequently call Mr. Seriake
Dickson to order even as we warn that he shall be held criminally liable for
any breach of the peace in Bayelsa state arising from his incitement of the
populace against military and security personnel on election duty.
“It does not matter whether his
party or another political party wins the election because CDC will take this
matter up when his immunity expires with his tenure as what he has done is
capable of triggering a genocide.”
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