The Peoples Democratic Party, Bayelsa State chapter, has
described the decision of Chief Alex Ekiotenne and his
followers to dump the party for the All Progressives
Congress, as not only embarrassing, but disgraceful.
The PDP said such defection was motivated by greed,
stressing that Ekiotenne and his supporters were people
who had benefitted immensely from the Seriake Dickson
administration in the state.
However, the party in a statement by its Publicity Secretary,
Mr. Osom Makbere, described Ekiotenne as a self-centred
politician.
He stated that Ekiotenne, who is the Publicity Secretary,
Bayelsa Peoples Consultative Assembly, had allegedly
benefitted so much from the present administration, in
terms of award of contracts and appointments of his
siblings, relations and close associates.
Calling on him to tell Bayelsans the truth and the main
reasons for his sudden cross carpeting, the party said his
action was being influenced by greed and selfishness.
It noted that the self-styled spokesman of BPCA was
defecting to the All Progressives Congress because the
Governor turned down his request to hire one of his guest
houses for a monthly fee of N150m, as was the case during
the previous administration in the state.
The State Governor, according to the statement, saw the
hiring of the said guest house as unnecessary and a waste
of the scarce resources of the state and turned it down.
It pointed out that it was for this reason that Ekiotenne
abandoned the PDP for the APC.
The BPCA spokesman had, during a news conference
during the week, accused Dickson of poor management of
the state’s resources.
Ekiotenne who, until the news conference, was Honorary
Special Adviser to Dickson, alleged that lack of strategic
planning, prioritisation and a result-oriented advisory
system had given productivity and sustained performance
of Dickson’s administration as serious impairment.
He had also alleged that Dickson’s administration had
squandered its political capital and that the psyche of the
people of the state had broken down irretrievably under the
governor.
He had stated, “While productivity was expected to rise,
there was a steady decline in productivity and good
performance of government in almost all sectors, which has
inexorably led us to the present state of gloom.
“The decline in federal revenue is a universal issue that all
states have to grapple with as a result of the drop in oil
revenue. But can we justifiably attribute all our woes to the
drop in federal allocation? Successive governments of the
state got carried away with the fat federal allocations over
the years and so did not think of developing the industrial,
agricultural and commercial sectors of the economy that
would have been able to promote internally generated
revenue in leaps and bounds.
“Bayelsans believe that if consultations and strategic
planning, including prioritisation had been sustained, we
would not have found ourselves where we are today.
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