{"id":2071,"date":"2019-01-09T18:26:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2019-01-09T18:26:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:26:25","slug":"what-gov-dickson-is-planning-against-buharis-chief-of-staff-abba-kyari-timipre-sylva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-gov-dickson-is-planning-against-buharis-chief-of-staff-abba-kyari-timipre-sylva","title":{"rendered":"What Gov. Dickson is \u2018planning against\u2019 Buhari\u2019s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari \u2013 Timipre Sylva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former governor and leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva has accused the state Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, of hatching plots to put him (Sylva) on a collision course with key state actors in the Presidency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-4\">In a statement signed by his media aide, Julius Bokoru and made available to DAILY POST on Wednesday, Sylva said he had learnt that Dickson\u2019s precise method was to sponsor with state resources, journalists in the mainstream media and content providers on the social media, to write damning stories against some key figures of the presidency.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said that \u201cAbba Kyari, the Chief of Staff to the President, is named as a particular target in this fake news campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\">The former governor added that, \u201cThe mercenaries responsible for this structured campaign of fake news would then leave artificial traces linking the stories to Sylva.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat is most surprising here is not the fact that Dickson can cook up a plot as treacherous as this, because when it comes to demonic desperation and sheer cynicism, he has lost the element of surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sylva said Dickson still deludes himself, despite being at the twilight of his governorship, with the notion that clutching on to attempts to discredit him can either divert public attention from his years of misrule or burnish up his damaged integrity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-6\">According to him, \u201cThe Dickson government has been built on layers of empty propaganda that he has sustained with robotic consistency. His habitually high-sounding claims and promises have not produced tangible results to uplift the people he has impoverished for close to eight years.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-20\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former governor and leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva has accused the state Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, of hatching plots to put him (Sylva) on a collision course with key state actors in the Presidency. 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