By Olasunkanmi Akoni

LAGOS – THE Action Congress (AC), has expressed its concern and dissatisfaction over Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State’s showing off the opulent Bayelsa State House, called Glory Land, to the world via the cable network, CNN.

According to AC, the “show of shame” was unnecessary at a time the Niger Delta militants were being asked to surrender their arms and embrace the government’s amnesty programme.

The party through its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, expressed disgust at the way the governor was fawning over the CNN journalist, Christian Purefoy, as he conducted him (journalist) round Glory Land, showing him an amphitheater that ”reminds you of the glory of Rome,’’ a place designed like The Star of David and a glistening banquet hall with an Arabian Night opulence, among other frivolities.

“Gov. Sylva, who had no inhibition in ordering a local journalist to be abducted from Abuja and whisked to Yenagoa over an alleged offensive article, was virtually genuflecting before Purefoy, virtually begging him to accept his invitation to play in his proposed 18-hole golf course! What an irony!’’

The party, while faulting the governor’s act, noted that it was nothing short of base instincts by telling the journalist that anyone who walks round the space in the Glory Land designed like The Star of David seven times would have his wishes come true.

“If the governor believes in such nonsensical superstition in this age and time, why has he not walked round it seven times so that his own wish for peace in the Niger Delta will come true? Or are we to assume that he has not done that because he does not wish for peace in the region?’’ it queried.