Bayelsa PDP Alleges Ethnic Bias In Removal Of DSS Boss

The Bayelsa State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the manner in which the former Acting Director General of the Department of State Services, Mr Matthew Seiyefa was removed by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Buhari replaced Seiyefa with Yusuf Bichi, last Friday, after the former acted for a brief period during which he tried to reposition the DSS.
The state Chairman of the PDP, Mr Cleopas Moses, in a statement said Seiyefa’s sudden removal was borne out of fear by the ruling cabal as there were reports that members of Buhari’s kitchen cabinet were not comfortable with a non-Northerner as the DSS boss.
The party chairman also said Seiyefa’s service to the nation was cut short because he was not from any of the major ethnic groups in Nigeria and that it was a continuation of the current Federal Government’s unfair treatment to the Ijaw nation and the Niger Delta region.
“The party believes if Seiyefa was from any of the major ethnic groups in Nigeria, he would not have been thrown out the way the Buhari administration did, not minding his acclaimed competence on the job.”
He accused the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led government of President Buhari of being anti-Ijaw in its decisions and execution of policies and projects.
Moses also called out the APC leaders in the state, notably Chief Timipre Sylva and the Minister of State for Agriculture, Hon Heineken Lokpobiri, to tell Bayelsans how they felt when an indigene of the state was unceremoniously and inhumanly treated by a government they are a part of.
“We have it on record that Mr Seiyefa had nobody to run to as this ill-advised plot was hatched by the cabal in their government. When it eventually happened, Lokpobiri and others were reportedly pouring Champaigne that another good Ijaw man they could not have influenced for their evil, occultic and undemocratic politics had been relieved of his well-deserved job.”

Austin Pade, Yenagoa