Bayelsa: I won’t force my Deputy to join APC, says Gov Diri
Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa State says he will not compel his deputy, Sen. Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, to join him in the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Diri formally joined the APC on Nov 3 without his deputy, fuelling speculations that Ewhrudjakpo has been penciled down for impeachment by the Bayelsa State House of Assembly majority of who followed Diri to APC.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deputy governor subsequently approached a Federal High Court in Abuja to restrain the Bayelsa Assembly from the plot to impeach him for choosing to remain in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Diri resigned from PDP on Oct. 15 citing obvious reasons for his decision but his deputy did not join him in the new party.
The governor made the assertion during the weekly state executive council meeting in the Government House, Yenagoa, on Wednesday with Ewhrudjakpo also present.
According to him, as a matter of principle, I believe in engagement rather than confrontation; I will continue to discuss with my deputy.
