Ahead of the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva who is the All Progressives Congress, APC, flag bearer in the election, has advised the state Governor, Mr Seriake Dickson, to be ready to quit Government House.
Dickson, a former Governor of the state, described Dickson’s policies and programmes as anti-people, wicked and painful.
A statement issued on Thursday by the Director of Media and Publicity of the Sylva-Igiri Campaign Organisation, SICO, Chief Nathan Egba, quotes the flag bearer as stating that the state governor within the last three years introduced unpopular initiatives meant to inflict pains on residents of the state, alleging that Dickson kept his promise to deliberately impoverish the people.
The statement reads, “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 short change them and take part of their meagre 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.
The former Governor observed that it was against all known public service norms for a political office holder to take over all functions of the office of the Accountant-General of the state.
He accused the state governor of running an administration that was solely operated by his cronies and clearly not civil servants-friendly.
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