BAYELSA GOVERNMENT DISOWNS SERIAKE'S AIDE. SAYS HE IS 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.