Gov Dickson won't escape defeat in Bayelsa Guber poll.

Former acting Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Nestor Binabo, on Friday said the incumbent Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Seriake Dickson, “would be roundly” defeated in the December 5 governorship election in the state.

Binabo, a former Speaker of the state House of Assembly, said the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Timipre Sylva, is more popular and has a better appeal than the incumbent governor.

He said Dickson mortgaged his goodwill through his selfish tendencies, inhuman policies and failing to fulfill the fundamental functions of the government.

According to him, every government aspires to balance social welfare of the people with capital projects in the spirits of socio-capitalist economy practiced in the country.

He said Dickson’s administration was a total failure for its inability to deliver on capital and social components of a performing government.

Binabo, in a press briefing in Yenagoa, the state capital, observed that Dickson, at the inception of his government, declared a state of emergency in education.

But, he said, the administration failed to fulfill most of the components of the emergency, adding that the educational system had become worse than it was in the past administration.

Insisting that the educational sector in the state was sick under Dickson, the former speaker lamented that the government abandoned most of the rehabilitation and reconstruction projects it started in schools.

He said it was a policy somersault for a government which declared emergency in education to allow the only state-owned university, the Niger Delta University (NDU) to decay.

“This government has added no value to the only state-owned university, the NDU. The development of that school stopped with Sylva. After Sylva, the school has been suffering from infrastructural and academic decay.

“Imagine that courses that were accredited during Sylva’s administration have been de-accredited. The school is begging for help. Instead of investing in the school, what the government did was to increase school fees without recourse to the poverty level of the people.

“Besides, this is a government that has failed to pay bursaries to students. So, everybody especially the students are suffering. How can a governor expect people he has impoverished to vote for him a second term? Any vote for Dickson, is a vote for entrenched poverty.”