PDP CRISIS: Francis Ottah, refute unconfirmed Media report

SSA MEDIA TO BAYELSA GOVT FRANCIS OTTAH REFUTE WRONG MEDIA REPORT ON PDP RECONCILIATION: As reactions and sometime unconfirmed news report continue to evolve, from the ongoing effort of the PDP reconciliatory committee, chaired by the country man Governor of Bayelsa state Hon Seriake Dickson, Senior Special Assistant on Media Relations to the Governor, Francis Ottah has come to refute a misconstrued media report by the News agency of Nigeria NAN, with the headline "PDP: Dickson Urges Markarfi to Step Down", he released the message to the Media through a Press release, also posted on his
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PRESS STATEMENT. 21/03/2017

The attention of the Chairman of the PDP Reconciliation Committee, Governor Seriake Dickson is drawn to a misleading headline: ''PDP: Dickson Urges Makarfi To Step  Down'' which of course has elicited the reaction of Prince Dayo Adeyeye. To set the record straight,  Governor Seriake Dickson spoke with a select group journalists last Saturday in Abuja on the PDP crisis but he never asked Makarfi to step down. In the said interview, the Governor as a peace maker stated his committee's role in the reconciliation process and argued that for PDP to bounce back, leaders must make sacrifices. He consequently appealed to PDP leaders including  Sheriff and Makarfi to make sacrifices for the revival of the party, stressing that the PDP is more than Sheriff and Makarfi and indeed any individual. This was what a NAN reporter who was at the interaction  misconstrued as stepping aside for which we have written to NAN management to complain.  Curiosly, only NAN misconstrued the Governor's interview, all other media organisations in the interaction reported the Governor correctly. A statement signed by Governor Dickson's Special Adviser on Media Relations, Francis Agbo states that inspite of the blackmail and propaganda scripted to distract Governor Dickson, the Governor and his Committee remain committed to reconciling all intetests through dialogue for only a political solution woven around dialogue and sacrifices can engender true reconciliation. The statement also added that the efforts of the Committee is beginning to yield dividends as the National Chairman, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff had publicly written, on the request of the Reconciliation Committee to undertake that he would not contest election at the unity convention; that he would not interfer in the selection of commiittee membership; that he had already written organs of the party for nominations into the convention committees; that all party officials  elected before the first botched Port harcourt Convention remain valid and lastly, all members of the party's NWC whose tenures are still running have agreed to resign to pave way for a unity Convention!