Your Failure to Pay Salaries Aided our Victory in Bayelsa, APC tells Dickson
POLITICS DIGEST – The Bayelsa State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday said Governor Seriake Dickson aided their victory at Saturday’s governorship poll by his failure to pay salaries and pensions.
The state chairman of APC, Barr Jothan Amos, said that people of the state voted for APC because Dickson in his eight years’ rule disrespected the elders and people of the state.
Reacting to Dickson’s allegation that the federal government connived with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agents to rig the election, the APC chairman said PDP also lost the election because it fielded an unpopular candidate.
The APC candidate, David Lyon, defeated Senator Douye Diri to end 20 years reign of PDP in the state.
Amos, in a statement on Wednesday in Yenagoa, said instead of Dickson to offset the backlog of salaries and pensions he owed civil servants and pensioners, he continued to display arrogance and total disrespect for the people and elders of the state.
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According to him, APC won the election free and fair because they got the support of the people who were tired of the tyrannical style of governance Dickson subjected them to in the last eight years.
He urged Bayelsans to ignore the comments of Dickson and remain steadfast, as the APC is more focused on pursuing better policies and programmes that would improve their lives.
“PDP lost the election because of the attitude of Dickson. The manner he insults and disrespects the people of the state, especially elders, is unprecedented. He has insulted everybody in Bayelsa, including former president of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
“If Dickson has insulted the likes of Jonathan who picked him from nowhere and made him governor, then nobody should be surprised that he is brazenly accusing the presidency and INEC of complicity when he knows that the right thing to do at this point is to head to the election petitions tribunal, if at all he has a case.
“What happened in the just concluded election was the manifestation of the will of the people who wanted to be liberated from the bondage Dickson subjected them to.
They simply expressed the fact that they were tired of darkness, underdevelopment, non-payment of salaries, too many abandoned projects, dilapidated schools, insecurity and misappropriation of public funds,” he said.
