{"id":17830,"date":"2019-11-11T15:07:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T15:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=17830"},"modified":"2019-11-11T15:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T15:07:36","slug":"dickson-blames-political-jobbers-on-alleged-rift-with-president-goodluck-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/dickson-blames-political-jobbers-on-alleged-rift-with-president-goodluck-jonathan","title":{"rendered":"Dickson blames political jobbers on alleged rift with President Goodluck Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state has addressed reports of a rift with former President <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goodluck_Jonathan\">Goodluck Jonathan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dickson blamed \u2018political jobbers\u2019 for making misleading comments and misrepresenting his actions with Jonathan over the choice of the PDP governorship candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Dickson said those who claimed to be working for Jonathan did not mean well for the former President.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Jonathan remained his leader, adding that he served as a political strategist to the ex-president.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, added that those sowing seeds of discord between them were unfair to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not want to say much but those of them sowing seed of discord were not there when I fought battles for the former President,\u2019\u2019 he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Dickson noted that he stood with Jonathan and never compromised during his re-election bid in 2015 as some did, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him then that the election was our own and those who wanted to impose a successor on me are unfair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will reveal more in my memoirs when I leave office and people will have the details,\u201d Dickson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state has addressed reports of a rift with former President Goodluck Jonathan. 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