PDP defectors are failed politicians – Bayelsa govt

Bayelsa State Government has carpeted politicians dumping the Peoples Democratic Party for the All Progressives Congress in the state, saying they are politicians that have been tested and failed.

The government’s position was expressed during an interview with Deputy Chief of Staff, Government House, Mrs. Ebizi Brown, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, on Thursday.

Brown, speaking on the stream of derections hitting the PDP, said their defections would not in any way affect the fortunes of the PDP, insisting that the defectors were failed and spent forces.

She said, “On the defection of members from the PDP, I want to say that their defections won’t make any impact. The PDP is waxing stronger by the day despite their exit.

“Many of those who have become media tigers, were those who have been tested and failed. We are not perturbed by their antics as they are not forces to reckon with. When they were given opportunities to serve, they failed. Bayelsans at the grassroots know them. They also know that PDP is their party and it cares for them.”

Brown, therefore, called on well-meaning indigenes of the state to support the second tenure bid of Governor Seriake Dickson to enable him to complete the ongoing projects in the state.

The former Director General of the Bayelsa State Tourism Development Board explained that the ongoing projects in the state which were over 80 per cent completion would be abandoned if Dickson was not given a second term.

Brown added that Dickson had completely re-branded the state with his giant strides in roads construction, infrastructural development, construction of numerous buildings, construction of sschools, capacity building, among others.

She said, “Why can’t we appreciate a good things when we see them? I do not think we have had a governor that has really loved Bayelsa more than Seriake Dickson. Whatever that comes in and out of the state is reported on a monthly basis through the state’s transparency briefing initiative.

“Today, some states cannot even pay salaries. Even our neighbouring states, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, whose revenues are far higher than what Bayelsa gets, are owing salaries. They have not paid overhead for months, but Bayelsa State, somehow, has managed to pay salaries till this period under the able leadership of Dickson.