The Bayelsa State Government has again made it clear thar it would not surrender the state to failed politicians who are desperate to return to power through the back door.
Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, stated this in Yenagoa on Friday.
He said it is highly regrettable that those who failed to develop the state when they had the opportunity are now attempting to teach Governor Seriake Dickson governance “when indeed their scorecard has remained zero”.
Iworiso-Markson said they have launched series of coordinated attacks, including playing politics with security in order to discredit the Dickson-led administration but insisted that they have failed and have been rejected.
According to him, majority of Bayelsans cannot forget in a hurry the level of insecurity, underdevlopment and large scale human rights abuses during the last government.
The government spokesman went further to challenge them to list the projects they successfully executed during their time in government or forever remain silent.
He noted that if the billions they recieved in the over five years they spent in office was not frittered away, Bayelsans would still have been celebrating them but their past has made them strangers and enemies of the people.
The Information Commissioner added that their daily frustration, pain and shame is the way Gov. Dickson has made governance simple through prudent utilization of public funds.
Iworiso-Markson further added that the restoration government is not surprised neither is it worried about their new campaign against the world class airport built to open the state for economic prosperity.
He said if not for their constant amnesia they wouldn’t have forgotten in a hurry how they spent billions of naira on survey and sand filling works only, on an airport project that till date remains the biggest scam by any government.
The mouthpiece of the state government maintained that if not for the political party they belong to, which has the notoriety of shielding looters of public treasury, they would have been cooling their heels in jail.
“It is saddening that some expired politicans who have fallen out of favour with Bayelsans will be questioning the economic viability of the Bayelsa International Airport. This is the same thing they did in the past about the Ogbia/Nembe road.
“This diaspora politicians had the opportunity of building an airport but did not and rather used the money earmarked for it to siphon billions of naira. Today, they stay wherever they are outside the state to criticize this government that has done so well.
” I feel pained that Bayelsans are not asking them questions. Most of them don’t even have houses here, they can’t boast of any investment but take delight to run down the government. Another election is coming and they are beating the drums of war”.
The Commissioner appealed to youths in the state to resist the temptation of being used by the self seeking politicans to perpetrate violence during the election, insisting that no blood must be shed on account of the ambition of any politician.
He said the government is fully aware of their plans to recruit agents of destabilization to cause confusion in the state ahead of the election but assured them that they will fail.
Iworiso-Markson called on Bayelsans to keep rejecting them, saying next year’s general elections is an opportunity to finally retire them from politics.
