By Emem Idio

YENAGOA— Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, yesterday said he would prefer a woman to succeed him as governor of the oil rich state.

Governor Dickson, who spoke in Yenagoa at the state secretariat of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, during the State Executive Council, SEC, meeting, said: “When I have to vacate my seat at the end of my tenure as governor of Bayelsa State, I have to search for a woman to succeed me.”

The governor urged female politicians to seek for elective positions and promised to give them support to realize their ambition, describing PDP as a women friendly party.

He appealed to party faithful to be prepared to see more women as members in the next state House of Assembly and other elective positions.

The governor implored politicians seeking elective positions on the need to learn how to engage and enlist the support of the people they wish to lead and shun politics of violence and intimidation stressing that power comes from God.