The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Candidate in the 2019 Bayelsa Election, Duoye Diri, has urged members of the party who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) to return.
This comes after the Supreme Court on Thursday nullified the election of Bayelsa State governor-elect, David Lyon and his running mate Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo who were to be sworn-in today, Friday.
Reacting to the Supreme Court ruling, Diri asked defectors to return to the PDP to help build Bayelsa State.
“The members of PDP, who out of one thing or the other got angry and left us to APC, I’m waving the olive branch, please, come back,” he said.
“We have to build Bayelsa state together. I’m also calling on my brothers in APC they are Bayelsans, we cannot continue to be in disunity.
“Being in APC does not remove you as my brother of Bayelsa state. Whether you are Nembe, Okpia, Sabama, or Southern Ijaw, that is the region that God has brought us together and so, I am extending my olive branch even to those of my brothers and sisters in APC.”
