By METROWATCH
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State, Tombra Williams, has blasted Chief Timipre Sylva for calling out President Bola Tinubu over the hardship in Nigeria.
Williams says the outburst of Sylva was shocking, explaining however that his level of frustration followed his recent defeat in the Bayelsa governorship election.
Sylva, a former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, had said Tinubu has done so badly by mismanaging the economy of Nigeria.
He also attributed the current economic crises to Tinubu’s “poorly constituted cabinet riddled with scandals.”
According to him, Tinubu’s economic policies are slowly tearing the country apart with high inflation rate and an unprecedented level of poverty.
“Nigerians are now in frying pan and our only prayer is that we should not be dumbed in the inferno”, Sylva said in a statement by one of his spokespersons, Dr John Idumange.
Sylva insisted that the policies of Tinubu were anti-people and cannot engender the needed growth and development as well as ease hunger and poverty.
But Williams alleged that Sylva’s latest media war is to rubbish Tinubu because of the president’s refusal to use federal might to realise his governorship ambition.
The PDP chieftain said that such tirade was aimed at discrediting the Tinubu administration while in real sense the current challenges bedevilling the country was a creation of the last administration which Sylva was a major player.
He stated that as Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Sylva failed to make the nation’s refinery to work which the present government is doing, among other anomalies in his four years stint.
Williams added that the passage of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), which Sylva flaunts as one of his achievements did not meet the expectations of people of the Niger Delta, particularly the per centage allocated to host communities.
The PDP chieftain maintained that Sylva does not have the moral justification to criticize the Tinubu’s administration as it inherited an almost comatose economy.
Williams said, “It is worrisome to see statements credited to the spokesperson of Chief Timipre Sylva accusing the Bola Tinubu administration of being responsible for our current economic woes. It is not only worrisome but also irresponsible on their part.
“It is surprising that Sylva has forgotten he was part of the Muhammadu Buhari administration that has set us back by over 20 years. As Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, he failed to live up to expectations which contributed to his abysmal outing in the last governorship election.
“Let Sylva be remorseful because his four years in office did not attract the expected benefits to people of the Niger Delta. If anyone should criticize Tinubu it is certainly not him.”
