The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the December 5 governorship 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 took Dickson, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the election to the cleaners, describing 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 the present PDP-led administration in the state 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 Gov. 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”.
The APC candidate noted that 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, adding that Dickson was running an administration that was solely operated by his cronies and clearly not civil servants friendly.
Sylva also accused the governor of inflicting pains on pensioners in the state by not paying their entitlements for months.
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