Chief Tiwei Orunmighe, the state chairman of the party, who led the delegation, stressed that the first civilian governor of Bayelsa impacted positively in the state, the Ijaw Nation and Nigeria in particular.
According to him, younger generation of the Ijaw youths should live by the legacies that have been left behind by Alameiseighaare.
“We are actually celebrating, we are not mourning, and this is not the moment to mourn, Alamieyeseigha remains a hero to the Ijaw people. He was indeed a realist, he stood for the Ijaw people, but the love he showed his people was returned in betrayal.
“The same people accusing the APC and the British government of conspiracy in his death, was the same people that protested carrying casket in Yenagoa against him, impeached him without investigations of the alleged crimes and now they want to tell the people they love him for the sake of politics.
“That betrayal, humiliation and dent is the wound that never healed, which he tried to pretend all was well till death took him away, a vacuum have been created and the Ijaw nation will do everything to fill it,” he said.
Orunmighe added that all people of the state should go down on their knees and thank God for the life of the deceased.
The APC prayed God to grant the wife and family the courage to keep the family together and his legacies.
Akpoebi Alamieyeseigha, the commissioner of transport, who spoke on behalf of the family, said that the members of the family are experiencing the most difficult period in their lives as the man everyone knew and called was no more with them.
A week ago, the former president Goodluck Jonathan also paid a condolence visit to the family of Alamieyeseigha at their residence in Opolo, Yenagoa.
He described the death of the ex-governor as a personal lost to him, saying that the deceased was not just like anyone to him but an elder brother.
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