Sylva and Dickson
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the December 5 election in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, on Thursday asked the state Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, to pack his belongings and get ready to quit the Government House.
Sylva lambasted Dickson, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the election and described his policies and programmes as anti-people, wicked and painful.
The former Governor, who spoke through his campaign outfit, Sylva-Igiri Campaign Organisation (SICO), said Dickson, in the last three years introduced unpopular initiatives to inflict pains on the citizens.
Sylva in a statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity, SICO, Chief Nathan Egba, said Dickson kept his promise to deliberately impoverish the people.
He said: “It will be recalled that Governor Dickson had boasted that none of his appointees, particularly the commissioners and special advisers would become millionaires under his government.
“Dickson went further to introduce policies that have crippled businesses of Bayelsans in private enterprises so as to ensure that there would be nobody financially strong enough to challenge him in the coming election.
“The civil servants are worst hit as the outgoing Dickson’s administration introduced a draconian regime through multiple taxation to shortchange them and take part of their meager salaries through the back door to keep them in perpetual poverty.
“It is on record that Governor Dickson also starved the entire civil service of funds for the day-to-day running of government business as well as deny civil servants of promotion on the excuse of lack of money to pay them on the next salary grade.”
Sylva said it was against all known public service norms for a political appointee to practically take over all functions of the office of the Accountant-General of the state.
He said Dickson was running an administration that was solely operated by his cronies and clearly not civil servants friendly.
He also accused the governor of inflicting pains on pensioners in the state by not paying their entitlements for months.
The Nation
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