{"id":16357,"date":"2019-10-05T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=16357"},"modified":"2019-10-05T14:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T14:50:01","slug":"dickson-sends-strong-message-to-oshiomhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/dickson-sends-strong-message-to-oshiomhole","title":{"rendered":"Dickson sends strong message to Oshiomhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson, has told the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All_Progressives_Congress\">All Progressives Congress<\/a> (APC) National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, that he lacks adequate knowledge of who he chose as the flagbearer of the party in the forthcoming governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>Dickson, who spoke during a chat with journalists in Lagos on Saturday, also dismissed Oshiomhole\u2019s vow that the APC would take over Bayelsa State after the election.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Oshiomhole had flayed Dickson for using \u2018unsophisticated language\u2019 against his party\u2019s governorship candidate, David Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Dickson said: \u201cMy good friend Oshiomhole knows that the APC cannot win Bayelsa in a free and fair election. They can\u2019t win any ward in Bayelsa. None. They have never won any election except intimidating people, manipulating electoral body. He knows that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is my good friend. I disagree with his views. I believe he doesn\u2019t know his candidate enough. But in the coming days and weeks, I believe he will get to know the person he has allowed to be the flag bearer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince 2015, we have been dealing with extreme violence and abuse of power by the leadership of the party that has the centre. We expect that the elections would not be as violent as the previous ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of Bayelsa can be trusted to vote for a candidate they believe has the experience, a candidate that they believe understands the issues, a candidate that will continue with the massive development that has come to stay in Bayelsa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson, has told the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, that he lacks adequate knowledge of who he chose as the flagbearer of the party in the forthcoming governorship election. Dickson, who spoke during a chat with journalists in Lagos on Saturday, also dismissed Oshiomhole\u2019s vow that the APC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":10519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[951,950,376],"class_list":["post-16357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-bayelsa-state","tag-dickson","tag-oshiomhole"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dickson sends strong message to Oshiomhole - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson, has told the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/dickson-sends-strong-message-to-oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dickson sends strong message to Oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson, has told the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/dickson-sends-strong-message-to-oshiomhole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-05T14:50:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/seriake-dickson-671x405.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"671\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"405\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/dickson-sends-strong-message-to-oshiomhole#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/dickson-sends-strong-message-to-oshiomhole\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Dickson sends strong message to Oshiomhole\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-05T14:50:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/dickson-sends-strong-message-to-oshiomhole\"},\"wordCount\":252,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/dickson-sends-strong-message-to-oshiomhole#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/seriake-dickson-671x405.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Bayelsa State\",\"Dickson\",\"Oshiomhole\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/dickson-sends-strong-message-to-oshiomhole#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/dickson-sends-strong-message-to-oshiomhole\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/dickson-sends-strong-message-to-oshiomhole\",\"name\":\"Dickson sends strong message to Oshiomhole - 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