{"id":877,"date":"2025-10-15T19:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hallowmace.com\/?p=877"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:40:46","slug":"whats-pursuing-second-term-governor-dickson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hallowmace.com\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s pursuing second term governor\u2019 \u2013 Dickson\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"mvp-main-head-wrap\" class=\"left relative\">\n<nav id=\"mvp-main-nav-wrap\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-main-nav-small\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-main-nav-small-cont\" class=\"left\">\n<div class=\"mvp-main-box\">\n<div id=\"mvp-nav-small-wrap\">\n<div class=\"mvp-nav-small-right-out left\">\n<div class=\"mvp-nav-small-right-in\">\n<div class=\"mvp-nav-small-cont left\">\n<div class=\"mvp-nav-small-left-out right\">\n<div id=\"mvp-nav-small-left\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-fly-but-wrap mvp-fly-but-click left relative\">Senator Seriake Dickson has criticised Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri\u2019s decision to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"mvp-main-body-wrap\" class=\"left relative\">\n<article id=\"mvp-article-wrap\">\n<div id=\"mvp-article-cont\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-main-box\">\n<div id=\"mvp-post-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-post-main-out left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-post-main-in\">\n<div id=\"mvp-post-content\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-wrap\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-post-soc-out right relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-post-soc-in\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-body\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-body-top\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>According to him, there was no reason for a second-term governor like Diri to join APC.<\/p>\n<p>While asserting that Diri\u2019s defection was unwarranted, the former Bayelsa Governor pledged to remain with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Douye Diri resigned from PDP on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He later announced that he was joining the ruling APC alongside 23 members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>This comes barely 24 hours after the Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, also joined the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is rushing to the ruling party; you don\u2019t even know what is pushing them or what they are pursuing,\u201d Seriake Dickson said in a viral post on X on Wednesday.<br \/>\n\u201cThe governor consulted me several times, and I was not convinced because I didn\u2019t see any compelling reason for a second-term governor to defect<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Seriake Dickson has criticised Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri\u2019s decision to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC. According to him, there was no reason for a second-term governor like Diri to join APC. While asserting that Diri\u2019s defection was unwarranted, the former Bayelsa Governor pledged to remain with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,98,42],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-assembly","tag-apc","tag-defection","tag-dickson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What\u2019s pursuing second term governor\u2019 \u2013 Dickson\u00a0 -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hallowmace.com\/?p=877\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What\u2019s pursuing second term governor\u2019 \u2013 Dickson\u00a0 -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senator Seriake Dickson has criticised Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri\u2019s decision to defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC. 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