Oshiomhole Berates Gov. Dickson Says, Bayelsa Airport Useless Yet Most Expensive In The World

The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress APC, Adams Oshiomhole, has berated the governor of Bayelsa, Seriake Dickson, over the state’s airport he built.

Oshiomhole described the state’s airport as useless and most expensive in the world. Adding that, it ought to be in the Guinness Book of World Records.

The national chairman disclosed this to journalists in Abuja on Thursday after he met with the governorship candidate of the party in the state, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri.

He stressed that the airport was a disaster waiting to happen. He challenged the governor to fly his air plane to the airport adding that, President Buhari would not allow the airport to operate due to the faulty state of the airport.

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He said “You know for a fact that the airport runway is flooded. Is it Buhari who flooded the airport? The runway is below ground level and they ought to have carried out proper survey. So, the runway is flooded because it was not properly built. Now, if President Buhari wants to stop it, what stops the governor from flying by himself to test the runway. He doesn’t fly there.

“We challenge Dickson to use his own plane to test-run and land on that airport. We challenge him to show the kind of Control Tower he has built. Truth is, we also challenge him to say whether it was Buhari who asked him to inflate the contract because there are different versions about the actual cost.

“That contract, I put it to my friend and brother, Gov. Dickson that it has entered the Guinness Book as the most expensive runway ever built anywhere in the world. Even the one you have in Hong Kong that they built from the Sea did not cost half of that.’’