The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) disclosed, on Wednesday, that Bayelsa State topped Nigeria’s unemployment chart, adding that the statistics made available by the Federal Office of Statistics showed that the state had the highest number of unemployed skilled and unskilled labourers across the country.
This is just as over 5,000 students of Bayelsa State origin and members of the National Association of Niger Delta Students (NANDS) adopted the ACN gubernatorial candidate in the forthcoming election.
Speaking, while receiving the visiting members of the NANDS, a retired permanent secretary and the gubernatorial candidate of the ACN, in the state, Mr Imoro Kubor expressed concern over the geometric increase in unemployment rate and what he described as acute poverty.
Attributing it to leadership problem, Mr Kubor, said the state had all it took to make life more meaningful to its entire citizenry, saying, “I decided to venture into politics in order to change the tide of events in the state.”
Governance, according to him, was all about service delivery, saying that it was saddening to note that government in Bayelsa State, only exists on the pages of newspapers.
His submission, “Bayelsa State is made up of eight local governments, but government exists only in Yenagoa city, while other local government areas were being margina-lised.
“Rather than embarking on meaningful development projects, the leadership of the state are busy globe-trotting at the detriment of down-trodden masses
This is just as over 5,000 students of Bayelsa State origin and members of the National Association of Niger Delta Students (NANDS) adopted the ACN gubernatorial candidate in the forthcoming election.
Speaking, while receiving the visiting members of the NANDS, a retired permanent secretary and the gubernatorial candidate of the ACN, in the state, Mr Imoro Kubor expressed concern over the geometric increase in unemployment rate and what he described as acute poverty.
Attributing it to leadership problem, Mr Kubor, said the state had all it took to make life more meaningful to its entire citizenry, saying, “I decided to venture into politics in order to change the tide of events in the state.”
Governance, according to him, was all about service delivery, saying that it was saddening to note that government in Bayelsa State, only exists on the pages of newspapers.
His submission, “Bayelsa State is made up of eight local governments, but government exists only in Yenagoa city, while other local government areas were being margina-lised.
“Rather than embarking on meaningful development projects, the leadership of the state are busy globe-trotting at the detriment of down-trodden masses
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