By Samuel Oyadongha

YENAGOA- BAYELSA  State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Hon. Jonathan Obuebite, has described as ‘satisfactory’ the verdict of stakeholders of the state on the performance of the state governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson, despite attempts by the opposition to whittle down his infrastructural and human capital development.

He said the present administration was not bothered by the frantic attempts by some few to discredit his achievements in the area of roads, infrastructure, education and sports development.

Obuebite spoke in Yenagoa on the series of development plan for the state after 20 years of creation. According to him, every sincere Bayelsans, made up of political leaders, youths, women and the founding fathers, were pleased with Governor Dickson.

“How do you measure satisfaction? In a political system, just like in United Kingdom and many other progressive states, it is only through election that you can measure the performance of a sitting governor. And of course, if out of eight local governments, the ‘Restoration Government’ led by Governor Seriake Dickson went for a test and out of eight, we scored eight and half.

“In Brass, out of eleven wards, we won six. That is the measure of acceptance used in measuring any government. I must say it categorically that the people of the state and friends of Bayelsa are happy with this administration. And they rated us 90 per cent,” he said.

“For somebody who wrote exam and passed seven subjects with distinction and had credit in the other subject (Brass), is that not ninety per cent? In terms of projects, and am sorry to say this, it is time of Governor Seriake Dickson since20 years of creation that we are having the first fly over.

‘Is it also surprising that it is in the time of Governor Dickson, twenty years after, that we are having an airport that is almost completed? We have had cases where 20 years old child marry. Twenty years after, we have had all these because of the pragmatic effort of a man known as Governor Seriake Dickson.

“The Bayelsa Airport is more than others because a Boeing 747 will land in the airport. Is it not surprising that it is under the present administration that we have all these. The administration has given us identity. All these cannot be achieved without prudence and Governor Dickson initiated a transparency briefing with openness, accountability and transparency. In the Nigerian nation, it is incomparable.

“We have done all others have not done. In infrastructure, we have done things others cannot do? We are trail blazers in governance because the essence of governance is opening the book for the people to see. And that is what we have done. It takes a government that is visionary to do what this administration is doing,” he said.