The Bayelsa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday challenged the state governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, to showcase whatever benefit the state derived from the six-year rule of President Goodluck Jonathan.
Apparently reacting to a statement credited to the governor that leaders of the APC were yet to attract development to the state, the opposition party in Bayelsa State described as ‘mischievous and loose’ such submission by the governor.
In a statement issued by the publicity secretary of the party, Comrade Fortune Panebi, the Bayelsa APC lamented that both the immediate past president and his party, the PDP were liabilities to the people of the state.
”Our attention was today drawn to a mischievous and loose statement credited to the Bayelsa state governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, apparently in clear exhibition of arrogance and shallowness that APC leaders from Bayelsa state were yet to attract development to the state.
”From the statement, it was clear that the governor was either being misled by his own imagination or was merely merely expressing another misguided view of our party, the APC.
”In our view, the statement was reckless even as it was a shameless show of brazen arrogance by a man whose party,the PDP had an ample opportunity to develop Bayelsa state that looked the other way.
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”Does it not show much of political liability that while Jonathan,a son of Bayelsa state held sway for six years, the state is yet to take off on? What template of development did the former president lay before he was voted out of office? For us in the APC and indeed the generality of Bayelsans, both Jonathan and his party, the PDP were liabilities than they were assets to the people of the state. They under developed Bayelsa State.
”May we use this medium to remind Governor Dickson that rather than chasing shadows and engaging in blackmail, he should consider the plight of Bayelsa workers and pay their salaries. The level of hunger, despair and insecurity occasioned by poverty we thought,could be of paramount interest to him.
”It is a shame that despite the God given opportunity, Jonathan and his party decided to impoverish the people of Bayelsa state just as Governor Dickson, like an emperor, has taken solace in a conquest-like squeeze of the people.
”We use this medium to advise Governor Dickson to face governance during this period of judicial reprieve as the days of justice are not too far away. It can only be preposterous that development which had eluded our dear state over the years under a PDP national government can be hurriedly canvassed to wrestled to Bayelsa within 15 months of President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
”For our teeming supporters, we enjoin you to remain steadfast and ignore provocative moves orchestrated by the state government and its agents to trigger unease. We will win at the end of the battle.”
THISDAY
