Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied rift between him and Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State: “Let me on behalf of the community thank you for making the visit, because of the relationship we have.”

Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and Gov. Seriake Dickson

“You wanted to come immediately, but said it would be a waste of time for the governor to come when the date for the burial had not been announced. For me, politics is a very useless business; when I see the kind of things people write about me on the social media, I just laugh.”

“For Bayelsa State, I feel sad because we are not many and we are not heterogeneous. It is a state that we also know ourselves. I have no reasons to say that I am competing with the governor; by the grace of God, I became Deputy Governor, and later on Governor of Bayelsa and President of Nigeria.”

“There is no way I can sit anywhere and plan evil against Bayelsa or the governor. When I was dreaming of becoming a governor, Dickson was amongst the very few in the meetings we were holding. Though; he was not in PDP then, but he opted to help.”

“He said he didn’t want to be in the PDP, but I virtually forced him to join PDP. When I became governor, I appointed Dickson the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General and that was how he joined PDP, and later became a member of House of Representatives and so on. There is no way I will break my relationship with the governor.”