Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, has warned the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun to leave Bayelsa out of the party’s growing confusion.
Dickson was reacting to a statement attributed to Oyegun who said the state has received a total of N440 billion allocation and his administration has nothing to show for it.
Oyegun who was represented by APC National Vice-Chairman, South-South, Hilliard Eta made this statement while formally receiving a former Chief of Staff, Bayelsa State Government House, Chief Diekivie Ikiogha, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party.
Dickson in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson said “Through prudent management and commitment to the ethos of good governance, that debt today stands at N90bn.
“Out of the N440bn that his government received as allocation from the Federation Account, about N242bn was used to help pay that debt even as we embarked on an unprecedented level of infrastructural development and socio-economic welfare schemes.
“This is why the Bayelsa State government considers as very uncharitable, the statement attributed to APC chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, that the government has nothing to show for that allocation from the centre.
“The APC chairman’s posture is highly curious, given that he had warned against defections to his party, after its victory at the March 2015 presidential elections, advising potential defectors to remain in their existing parties and help build a virile opposition in the interest of the development of the nation’s democracy.
“So, why is the APC now welcoming the sudden influx of power prostitutes and fair weather politicians, who spin cock and bull stories into its fold?
“If the APC is expecting the defectors it is now welcoming with open arms to win the governorship election in the state, they will have to wait till eternity. Bayelsans have no time for political miscreants.”