Who is after Gov Diri? It is that time of the year when different political figures are cast into molds for other people to throw stones at. For the governor of Bayelsa Stat
It is that time of the year when different political figures are cast into molds for other people to throw stones at. For the governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, the latest of these casting processes has thrown his reputation into disarray. Unless the Governor takes drastic steps to prove his innocence, he might not be able to retain the confidence of some of his most loyal Bayelsans.
Members of the All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa have decided to throw new stones at Diri. The Bayelsan governor is the victim of a new package of accusations about the allocation of money to the Bayelsan people, money that has allegedly disappeared down the drain and must have been swallowed up by Diri, that is, according to the governor’s APC rivals.
Based on the reports, Diri and his cabinet received N100 billion as the share of Bayelsa’s people in the oil dividend from President Muhammadu Buhari. However, each of the local government areas in Bayelsa was given N3 billion of this huge amount. Interestingly, Diri’s APC opposers claim that some local government areas in Bayelsa do not have leaders and that Diri and his people did not report that fact but somehow found a way to swallow N21 billion.
According to Diri’s accusers, even though Diri eventually found a way to report that the Federal Government had released the money for the local governments, they did not make a proper amount of how they spent it. Reportedly, they even went to their state assembly a month after the N100 billion allocation to take a loan.
Currently, more people are asking questions about Diri’s integrity and the man might be forced to provide answers as he has lost the initiative.Founded on January 22, 1995, THISDAY is published by THISDAY NEWSPAPERS LTD., 35 Creek Road Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria with offices in 36 states of Nigeria , the Federal Capital Territory and around the world.
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