The Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Seriake Dickson, has called on all opposition parties to support President Muhammadu Buhari.
Dickson is a member of the then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, while the President belongs to the governing party, the All Progressives Congress.
On his part, he said he would continue to work for security, unity and progress of the country regardless of the fact that President Buhari is a member of the APC.
The governor said this in Abuja on Saturday while receiving some Ijaw community leaders who paid him a solidarity visit and endorsed his second term ambition.
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He said supporting Buhari was important to move the nation forward no matter what political party that produces the leadership at the federal level.
He told him visitors, “I enjoined you to work with constituted authority because our country must be safe. We are determined to support the federal system because we must be sure that our country is safe.
“Political parties aside, we must all work for security of Nigeria; work for security in Bayelsa and work for security in the Niger Delta.
“President Buhari deserves our support and we have to rally round him to succeed without the issue of which political party produced him.
“We can’t afford to fail because the future of our children and those coming behind them is tied to the success of the government now.”
Referring to the solidarity visit, Dickson said he was impressed by what he described as the “well executed ambush” that only the Ijaw people could deliver.
