Sylva, who was cheered by the crowd when he drove on the Sagbama-Ekeremor road to Ekeremor for his ongoing campaign said it was abominable for the incumbent Governor Douye Diri to be trying to take credit for the road constructed by his predecessor.
Diri, who is the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the November 11 polls, had during his campaign at Igeibiri in Southern Ijaw LGA, berated Sylva for claiming that he (Sylva) constructed the road to a level before Dickson completed it.
The governor stated that he (Diri) completed the road, and insisted that Sylva did not pour a shovel of sand on the road when he governed the state for five years.
Sylva, however, said, “We are grateful to former Governor Dickson for executing this very vital road. He has written his name in gold and left a legacy that would speak for him through time.
“We must give credit to who deserve it and that accolade must go to Dickson. It is a sign of ingratitude for Governor Douye Diri to appropriate the road to himself.”
The APC governorship hopeful also hailed the people of Ekeremor for their overwhelming warm reception when he campaigned in the area ahead of the governorship election.
He wondered why Diri had developed the habit of re-inaugurating projects executed by his predecessor without making any reference to former governor Dickson.
The former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources observed that without the sacrifices, hard work, and foresight of Dickson, Diri would not have become a governor.
Sylva recalled that the PDP candidate failed the popularity test in 2019 when he was roundly trounced by the APC and would fail again in November for mismanaging over three years in governance.
“You can’t subject people to this kind of hardship and expect them to bring you back to power. The people are tired and willing to sack this failed government”, Sylva said.
The former governor appealed to the Ekeremor people to keep faith with him, assuring that he would fulfill all the promises he made to them when elected in November.
He also insisted that the people of the LGA, like every other part of the state, had suffered untold hardship under the “clueless administration” of Diri and were eager to vote out the government.
