Bayelsa’s poverty: PDP slams Diri administration for shifting blame to FG

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has doubled down on its criticism of the Bayelsa State Government over concerns about rising poverty and hunger in the state, declaring that blaming the federal government for the poverty index in the state is a disservice to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.
The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, Orientation and Strategy, Mrs Ebiuwou Koku-Obiyai, had, in a swift reaction to the PDP’s earlier call on the state government to tackle rising hunger and poverty in the state, blamed the situation on national economic realities, stressing that the Diri administration had implemented wide-ranging programmes and infrastructural projects to ...