Late first civilian governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Solomon Alamieyeseigha’s wife, Margaret has been lamenting about her husband’s death… “When my husband took over the mantle of leadership, he saw how his people were suffering. As an intelligent man, he saw the need to fight for resource control as the way out for his people. But at the end it is the same people that he fought for that betrayed him. They sold him out to the PDP that eventually killed him. I want to advise the Ijaw people to stop betraying their leaders, so that they can move forward.”

 “I can categorically say it was the PDP that arrested my husband, seized all his properties and humiliated him to the point of his death. It was PDP that killed my husband and not the APC…It was the PDP that tormented my husband and he died as a result of the humiliation he suffered in the hands of the PDP. As far as I’m concerned, they humiliated him and took everything away from us.”