Bayelsa Government disowns Dickson’s ex-aide, says he’s an ingrate

The Bayelsa State Government has publicly disowned a former aide to Governor Seriake Dickson, Mr. Chinedu Mbah, describing him as an ingrate.

A Government House statement made available to DAILY POST on Thursday in Yenagoa, called on the general public to ignore recent media reports of the purported resignation of Mbah.

Mbah, a former Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Non-Indigenes Affairs, recently announced that he was leaving Gov. Dickson’ government because of its indebtedness in payment of salaries and arrears.

But reacting in a statement, the Special Adviser to Governor Dickson on Treasury and Accounts, Mr Timipre Seipulou, described Mbah’s claim as false and malicious.

He said the former aide’s claim was a well calculated attempt to impugn on the reputation of the Dickson-led Restoration Government.

According to Seipulou, the state government has always lived up to its financial obligations to workers and was “not owing any of his aides including Mbah.”

He said, “Available financial records reveal that Mbah was paid his remunerations to date just like any other political appointee in the state before his purported claim of resignation.

“Mbah is only acting the script of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and particularly for his master and former Chief of Staff to Governor Dickson, Chief Dikivie Ikiogha, who is now in the APC.

Seipulou said that Ikiogha recommended Mbah for appointment, saying that, “only a desperate and ungrateful man can make such malicious claims.”

He described the former aide’s claim as politically motivated and a deliberate attempt to smear the good image of Governor Dickson.

According to him, the state government was not in anyway perturbed by Mbah’s purported resignation, since he had long before now crossed over to the APC.

Seipulou said: “Ordinarily I would not have reacted to the spurious and false claims made by Mbah.

“But in order to put the records straight, I want to unequivocally state here that the Bayelsa State Government is not owing its workers and appointees.

“It is now public knowledge that this is one of the few states in Nigeria that has not failed in meeting its financial obligations especially in terms of payment of salaries.”

The statement claimed that Mbah is doing the bidding of his master and the opposition, APC, which his master belong to.

It said the state government was not losing sleep over Mbah’s purported resignation because he was more of a liability to the government.

“But my advice is that people should learn how to play politics and not pay good with evil because of their inordinate political ambitions,” the statement added.

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