Bayelsa Guber: Group Wants PDP Consensus Candidate

Bayelsa Guber: Group Wants PDP Consensus Candidate

YENAGOA – As the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa State gradually gathers momentum, the Democratic Agenda Watch (DAW), a socio-political group, is canvassing for the adoption of Fred Agbedi as the consensus candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Agbedi is currently a second-term member of the House of Representatives representing Sagbama/Ekeremor federal constituency of the state on the platform of the PDP.

He is also a former state chairman of the party in Bayelsa.
DAW in a statement in Yenagoa on Wednesday signed by the founding executive director, Ebipadei Johnson, said that Agbedi remained the most acceptable person by all blocs and interest groups with the PDP.

Ebipadei listed the contending blocs in the party as former President Goodluck Jonathan; Governor Seriake Dickson and Jonathan’s wife, Patience.

Others are Timi Alaibe, pioneer Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Matters and coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), and Amalate Johnny Turner, a former honorary adviser to the Bayelsa State governor.

Ebipadei said that Agbedi had paid his dues as a party man and in the past whole-heartedly supported the aspirations of Jonathan and also served as two-time director-general of the restoration campaign of incumbent Governor Dickson.

He said the issue of zoning would not hold any water in the forthcoming governorship polls since all the three senatorial districts had produced governors and that the next round of zoning could begin from any of the zones.

The DAW leader emphasised that Agbedi, an indigene of Aghoro community in Ekeremor Local Government Area, Bayelsa West, had over the years built bridges of friendship, loyalty and unity across the state.

“Agbedi is a detribalised and humane politician who has the capacity and competence to bring all contending interests together, even beyond party lines,” Ebipadei added.

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