Senator Clever Ikisikpo, who represented Bayelsa East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, has said that the coalition political group, ADC, is currently in the business of harvesting members from the PDP and APC respectively, in the state.
Ikisikpo who is one of the pillars of the ADC in the state, was until recently, a member of the APC.
He was, however, a member of the PDP under which platform he won all his elections into the state house of assembly, the House of Representatives and then into the senate.
He told TNN in an interview on Tuesday that both the APC and the PDP had lost focus, hence his decision to join the coalition force.
Ikisikpo said the major focus at the moment was to get people into and stabilise the party in Bayelsa.
He added that many prominent serving and former political leaders in the state were already enrolling in the ADC and that more were still on their way.
He said he was particularly miffed by the style of leadership displayed by the APC at the federal level and lamented that Nigerians were becoming slaves in their fatherland.
He said: “For now, our take is not on positions but on how to shape the party. There’s hunger in the land.
“Our economy is in bad shape. APC has deviated from what it preached and becoming an emperor in the land.
“They’re not willing to listen to the cry of Nigerians.
“Security, which was mainly on Boko Haram, has developed into several branches that one will not be able to name. This is not the Nigeria of our dream.
“Floating the naira has weakened the naira to 1600/1$. Before APC took over government, a bag of rice was N8000 with a minimum wage of N30k per month.
“This means that the least paid civil servant could afford three bags of rice in a month. Today, minimum wage is N70k per month and a bag of ric is more N100k. A civil servant might only buy half bag in a month.
“Fuel has moved from N143 to N950. We are all Nigerians and all of us know what is happening.”
Ikisikpo said the president, Bola Tinubu claimed to be a democrat and “protested against other governments, but is now refusing Nigerians to protest against bad governance.”
The senator said it was only the ADC that would be able to rescue the country and expressed the hope that the party would take over Bayelsa and the entire country in 2027.
