The National leader of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Seriake Dickson, has revealed why he left the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and formed the NDC.
Featuring in an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’ on Wednesday, Dickson said there is no democracy without the opposition.
According to the former Bayelsa state governor, he does not move with the crowd.
He said people defect to the ruling party, they can have appointments, contracts and enjoy federal and state patronage.
“We should encourage people to be in opposition because there’s democracy without opposition.
“People join the ruling party to be assisted by so-called federal mights, to write results and have security support to terrorize and humiliate their people in the name of rigging elections, and so on.
“I am not a politician of that mode. Since 2015 PDP lost federal power, I was the first opposition governor who bore the brunt of that federal loss of power.
“I have been in for sometime as an opposition politician. So, being in the opposition doesn’t scare me,” he said.
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