Bayelsa’s APC chairman said Gov. Diri’s government is a failure.

The Prosperity Administration has been deemed a failure by the All Progressives Congress (APC) chapter in Bayelsa State, led by Dennis Otiotio.

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When he spoke with members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists’ federated correspondents’ chapel on Wednesday in Yenagoa, he said that nearly all of the city’s businesses were shuttered, claiming that all Igbo businesspeople had left the region.

Otiotio asserted that he has failed in every area of government and that his abilities cannot be measured in any of these areas: power, water, or roads.

Oitiotio stated, “When you live in Yenagoa, you grow up in Yenagoa.” “You have not gone to another place.” You will think that Yenagoa is the ultimate. That is why anything they do in Yenagoa, people will just be shouting; they are trying. Like the overhead bridge that they built, people will be shouting, but this is a flyover. Then, when you get to places like Kano or Calabar or even Port Harcourt and see what is there, you will ask, “What is happening here?”

“People think that Douye Diri is trying. What is he trying to do with the billions that come to the state? He is a failure. Douye Diri has failed in all ramifications and in all aspects of governance.

“Let us look at it.” “What people need is water, light, and housing.” He has not built a single estate. You are aware that the House of Assembly quarters have been sold to the current House of Assembly members. There is no replacement estate. The estate of the former commissioner has been sold to the current commissioner. There is no replacement.

“The judges’ quarters that Dickson commissioned, he wants to remodel them and commission them.” It is all deception. He is just deceiving the people.

“Let’s go to the water; why can’t we treat the stream water and use it like what they do in the US?” because the government is not foresighted. If they travel out, they will just stay in the hotel, enjoy themselves, and come back.

“Are you not surprised that every house in Bayelsa must dig a borehole?” Even the ministry of water resources relies on Aboki to supply it with water. And then you come and tell us there is governance. When you want to measure performance, we should be able to look at the critical sectors.

“Talking about light, various states have been given licenses to generate power.” Transmission is in the hands of the federal government. The power that the Bayelsa state government is now using is generated by local content. They have abandoned their responsibility.

“What have they done concerning roads?” The bypass at Igbogene was already standard before they took over, and they have been doing it up until now. Seriake did it for eight years. Douye Diri is still doing it, and they are proud of themselves.

“How much is it?” Let them come out and tell us how much was paid before they came in and how they have paid for that road. “Let us know how much they are spending on these projects,” he added.