Former Managing Director Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC),Timi Alaibe has explained that he joined the gubernatorial race in the state because Bayelsans are tired of ‘visionless and accidental leadership.’
Alaibe said this when he spoke with journalists at the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) after submitting his expression of interest and nomination forms.
He said “You were here when the elders and leaders the state came to purchase form, asking me to contest for the governorship of the state. In answering that call and following my acceptance, I have come here to submit the expression of interest and nomination forms.
“We as Bayelsa people are tired of accidental leadership. We are tired of visionlessness and you know that I come with a lot of experience, goodwill, integrity and reputation. As one of the major oil producing states in this country, Bayelsa has not been able to see structured development in terms of infrastructural development and even in terms of environmental development as consequence of oil production.”
On his relationship with incumbent Governor of the state, Seriaki Dickson, he said “I am a party man and that is what I have always been. I even have course to step down for people by following party directive those days, so I am a party man but in spite of how we try to support them, the leopard and his skin refused to change, you cannot give what you do not have.”
He added that he is offering the people leadership with vision that has the capacity to fix things.
He said “It is leadership we are talking about, leadership with vision, leadership that gives direction, leadership that know critical issue of infrastructural development and empowerment, leadership that connect with the people, that is what is absent and that is what we want to fix.”
Alaibe is one of 13 governorship aspirants contesting under the umbrella of the All Progressives Congress ahead of the party’s primary slated for September 19.