Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Bayelsa State, Udengs Eradiri has accused the party’s Chairman in the State of accepting 100 million naira from the Peoples Democratic Party.
Gatekeepers News reports that Eradiri, who was absent at the peace accord signing ahead of the November 11 governorship candidate, alleged that he didn’t get a letter in that respect.
While speaking during an interview on Arise TV earlier today (Thursday), he explained that the state LP Chairman collected N100m from Governor Duoye Diri who is also seeking re-election in the poll.
Eradiri said, “First, I was not invited. My party in Bayelsa is working for the PDP, so, if you send them information, they will hoard it, especially if it will give me a mileage. I had known that since, so it didn’t bother me. However, I didn’t miss anything. I went for campaigns.”
Expatiating on the issue, he said, “The issue of the peace accord, I didn’t get a letter. Usually, they notify your party, but you see my party chairman, just yesterday, they did a press conference after collecting a hundred million naira from the governor, they started sharing formulas, started creating problems. People like us, I knew from day one.
“[He collected] One hundred million naira, and said he sent fifty million naira to national though the national denied it. And then, the sharing of the other fifty million naira started bringing arguments, they went to organise a press briefing that they have decided to support Duoye Diri. The party chairman is an appointee of the governor. Right from day one, I knew, and I had blown this alarm before that these people are not working for me, and when I go to campaign, I tell Bayelsa people, it’s only the state woman leader that goes with me. The rest have given me conditions- I should bring so-so amount. I don’t have that kind of money. I didn’t come here because of money, I came here because of the issues that affect my people, and so far so good, I have been supported by my friends and my business.”
Eradiri, while reacting to the inciting statement made by the State’s Deputy Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Joshua Maciver said, “I feel sad about the statement that was credited to Joshua Maciver. I think that sometimes, emotions make people not control the kind of rhetoric that they use. That alone has removed a lot of mileage from the support that they used to have.
“For me, I feel sorry for the governorship candidate who didn’t do a proper consultation before he went ahead to pick the person of Joshua to be coming up in public to make such statements. You saw the statement he made with respect to his incarceration. For me, I thought that that was very irresponsible for anybody to say, let alone, a deputy governorship candidate. I condemned it in totality that you call for such violence when so far so good, Bayelsa elections or not until recently have been seemingly peaceful.”
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