Pdp, Not Apc, Killed Alamieyeseigha – Wife Declares

SAN FRANCISCO, October 25, (THEWILL) – Mrs Margaret Alamieyeseigha, widow of Diepreye Solomon Alamieyeseigha, a former governor of Bayelsa state, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of being responsible for the death of her husband.

She made the startling revelation during the one-year memorial event of Alamieyeseigha in the late politician's country home in Amassoma, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state declaring that the All Progressive Congress (APC) was not responsible for her husband's death, because the party was not in power when his travails began.

Recounting how her husband was humiliated before he was arrested, she called on the people of the Ijaw ethnic nationality to shun acts that might cause them to betray their leaders declaring that the Ijaw people, whom Alamieyeseigha fought for, betrayed and sold him out to the PDP.

“I can categorically say today that it was the PDP that arrested my husband, seized all his properties and humiliated him to the point of death,” she said.

“It was the PDP that killed my husband and not the APC. It was PDP that arrested my husband, it was the PDP that humiliated my husband and killed him. At the end they seized everything that belonged to him.

“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 am concerned, they humiliated us and took everything away from us.

“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 fourth 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.”

THEWILL recalls that Alamieyeseigha, fondly called the Governor-General of the Niger Delta during his heyday as governor of Bayelsa State, died on October 10, 2015, aged 62 in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Rivers State of complications arising from high blood pressure and diabetes which affected his kidney.

He was the first Executive Governor of Bayelsa State, serving between 1999 and 2005 when he was impeached, following his escape from London to evade justice after he was accused of money laundering.

He was later prosecuted in Nigeria, convicted and jailed for corrupt practices. But he was granted presidential pardon by his political godson and former President, Goodluck Jonathan.

Story by Oputah David