Hardship: PDP slams Bayelsa govt for shifting blame to FG

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