Governor Dickson of Bayelsa state
Bayelsa State Government has denied the party an allow to make use of the multipurpose corridor inside the stadium for its state congress, based on Preye Aganaba, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Convention Committee.
In an assertion on Friday in Abuja, Aganaba additionally alleged that the Bayelsa Government was doing every little thing potential to frustrate the conduct of APC State Congress slated for right now.
He mentioned the party govt in Bayelsa utilized for the usage of the ability formally, including that the state authorities due to this fact, had no motive to disclaim the APC its use.
“It is true that the state authorities is denying us the usage of stadium for our state congress meant to happen in Bayelsa on Saturday.
“We have properly applied and we were not told that the facility will not be available for us, to our surprise, up till now the state government has refused to approve the facility for us,” he mentioned.
He also said that the APC in Bayelsa had been peaceable and orderly as revealed in its simply concluded Ward and Local Government Congresses, saying that there was assurance that Saturday´s state congress can be disaster free.
“The authorities should be advised that we're all indigenes of the state, we aren't foreigners.
“We have right to association and to belong to any political party of our choice, so we don’t deserve to be treated like outcasts,” he mentioned.
He, due to this fact, known as on the state authorities to have a rethink, including that it might quantity to political intolerance if the state authorities refused APC the usage of a public place such because the stadium.