- Chief Perekeme Richard Kpodo reveals that former President Goodluck Jonathan played dirty politics while in office
- Kpodo says politics is not dirty and useless like Jonathan reportedly claimed but that the former president simply showed ingratitude to those who made him
- He accuses Jonathan's government of massive corruption
A former security adviser to the Bayelsa state government, Chief Perekeme Richard Kpodo, has hit back at former President Goodluck Jonathan for reportedly describing politics as a dirty and useless business.
The former president reportedly said this due to the level of criticisms his government got in the six years it lasted.
Kpodo said Jonathan’s reported ‘dirty business’ verdict on politics shows the former president as not grateful to those who brought him into politics and made him prominent from an Otuoke boy without scandals.
The former security adviser, who noted that some of the misdeeds during the administration of Jonathan were being investigated, said the game of politics to the former first family became dirty when issues of corruption trailed them when Jonathan was deputy governor in Bayelsa and when he was president.
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“Jonathan's comment is provocative and unfair to the next generation of politicians and the past ones that made him.
“Has he forgotten those he hurt with his dirty politics? Did he forget late Melford Okilo that he abandoned because the man was reluctant to support his emergence as deputy governor in Bayelsa?
“Has he forgotten late Bozimo who kept him in his house and supported his political growth? Did he forget the dirty politics he played against DSP Alameiseigha and Timipre Sylva? And he says Poliftics is dirty.
“Jonathan should remember when he was staying in a two bedroom flat apartment in OMPADEC quarters building in Abuloma without a fridge.
“Politics is dirty and they have numerous buildings at home and abroad. Without politics they would have been unknown and struggling along the streets of Port Harcourt.
“It is provocative and wicked to describe where he has benefited from as being dirty. Politics is not dirty, It is Jonathan style of politics that is dirty,” Chief Kpodo said in a statement he made available to NAIJ.com.
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Continuing, Kpodo noted: “Politics is dirty and the Ijaw nation supported him but he disappointed them without making any Ijaw man. He only concentrated on enriching his kinsmen with questionable contracts.
“He said politics is dirty and he could not complete the East/West Road, the Brass NLG project, the fertilizer project and the deep sea port in Agge.
“Jonathan wasted the single opportunity the Ijaw nation had. He also allowed the Tower Hotel and the New Bayelsa city projects to be abandoned.
“Politics is played around the world and it is not dirty. But it is Jonathan’s kind of politics that is dirty. The media in Bayelsa are made to suffer because they exposed some of his dirty politics against those he had issues with and would not forgive.”
He called Jonathan crafty because the former president had reportedly said he had no rift with Governor Seriake Dickson.
“That was the same way he denied his battle with Sylva until he was stopped from seeking second term. Now, he is denying his clandestine plan against Governor Dickson. Dickson should be careful.
“Jonathan never supported Governor Dickson’s second term. Would he claim he did not know what his boys did to the governor during his six years in power?
“The excesses showed by his wife towards the Bayelsa governor and he kept silent. If Governor Dickson had not fought them, he would have ended up like Timipre Sylva.
"Because Governor Dickson has shown that with or without him (Jonathan), he can move Bayelsa forward.
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“That is why Jonathan is making a systematic U-turn to deny any rift with Dickson. Dickson has shown him that he is a fighter and a strategist,” Kpodo said.
NAIJ.com earlier reported how Chief Perekeme Kpodo sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari recently asking the latter to immediately probe the alleged monumental fraud in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
He claimed that despite the huge investments made by the federal government in the NDDC, revelations and allegations made against past and present managements of the board have shown that the commission is now an avenue for quick and illegal money, misapplication of funds and abandoned projects.
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Source: Naija.ng